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- Taking free samples from the companies and selling them on places like ebay to make your self an profit is an absolute no-no (unless the company says you can do it). Those parts are meant to be used for your projects, NOT for resale.
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A Madison woman has been charged with animal cruelty after a partially decapitated dog was discovered on her property earlier this month. According to veteran animal control officers, the incident is one of the more gruesome cases they have worked. Authorities told Nashville's News 2 Investigates they were called to Joshlyn Russell-Moore's home on January 10 after they received an anonymous call. Upon arrival animal control officers discovered a pit bull whose head was nearly severed by a chain. The dog has since been euthanized. "As soon as we pulled up in the driveway you could smell it. The dog was fully infected. His head was swollen. His jaws were swelled up. There's no way you can miss that," animal control officer Billy Briggs said. He continued, "It was nearly decapitated from the side to the bottom of the neck clear through to the esophagus. This dog suffered. I can't tell you how bad this dog suffered." An old food bowl and a dilapidated dog house were also found. Nashville's News 2 Investigates spoke to some people inside the home on Wednesday who described Russell-Moore as a "sweetheart," adding she would never hurt a fly. No one inside the house would speak on camera, but did say the pit bull belonged to an ex-boyfriend and that Russell-Moore did not call authorities because she was afraid of the man.
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A second dog was also found on the property. Authorities said it was skinny, but still alive.Russell-Moore is currently charged with a misdemeanor. The district attorney's office is reviewing the case to see if felony abuse charges are warranted.
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As for the Phillies, they also have an open date on Tuesday before hosting the Reds at 7:05 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Right-hander Ryan Madson is slated to start that contest for the Phillies and will be followed by Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Rosario and Clay Condrey.
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Police say they are clamping down on anti-social behaviour in Blyth.
It comes after officers received a number of calls regarding youths drinking alcohol and acting disorderly at Ridley Park last weekend.
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Some of the youths were also taken home to their parents and advised of their behaviour.
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GREEN BAY -- The Packers once again have a new backup quarterback. The club signed Matt Flynn on Tuesday. They placed Seneca Wallace on the injured reserve.
The Packers worked Flynn out on Monday as they tried to find a healthy backup for Scott Tolzien this week in New York. Flynn was an obvious fit. The sixth-year player out of LSU was drafted by the Packers in the seventh round in 2008. He spent four seasons as Aaron Rodgers' backup before signing with Seattle. Flynn spent one season with the Seahawks. He's had a rough year. Flynn has been cut by Oakland and Buffalo in 2013.
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Apex police responded to a call reporting a child being shot Thursday afternoon.
According to Apex Police, when officers arrived at the scene on Scott's Ridge Trail, they found a 4-year-old boy shot in the lower leg.
Christopher Hamby, a family friend, left a loaded firearm in the unlocked glove box of his vehicle. The victim and his 3-year-old brother were allowed to play in the car while the boy's mother and Hamby were inside the home.
The victim retrieved the gun from the glove box and shot himself in the leg.
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Zebra-striped candy bags.
A cardboard Jeep in the lobby.
Intricate paperbag vines draped overhead.
What was going on at Belleville's Cathedral Grade School? Standardized testing week.
Teachers Sue Ratkewicz and Sandy Casson came up with a "jungle theme to encourage and inspire second- through eighth-graders to relax, have a little fun and get through those fill-in-the-circle, all-morning tests in an upbeat way.
"The games they played at the pep rally were a huge hit," said principal Linda Hobbs.
Hands-on activities reinforced test-taking tips. To illustrate how to darken a circle completely, kids competed to fill the inside of a hula hoop with shaving cream.
"We were going to use whipped cream," said Sandy, who teaches sixth grade, "but we changed to shaving cream. We did a pie-in-the-face with whipped cream (for Catholic Schools week). We knew how sticky that can be."
For the eat-a-hearty-breakfast tip, there were egg-on-a-spoon relay races.
For get plenty of sleep, students put on pjs over their uniforms, climbed into sleeping bags and rolled their way down mats. "We had a spotted team and a striped team," said Sandy. "Teachers wore animal prints and safari hats."
One tip students still remembered from last year: Relax, don't hold your pencils with a death grip.
"They say their hands get so tired when they take the test," said Sandy. "We ended with a tug of war, stripes versus spots."
Sandy and Sue, who teaches fourth grade, spent time after school and over the weekend decking out the school with brown paper vines. Shop N Save donated more than 300 bags.
A dozen students helped decorate.
"We got blisters," said Kyla Norton, 11.
"But it was all worth it," said Cami Lindauer, 11.
"The vines everywhere turned out to be a lot and very awesome," said Abigail Scrivner, 11.
Kyla noted the decor's "wow" factor.
They wrapped walls in jungle prints, put a cardboard Jeep in the lobby and turned an umbrella into the foliage end of a palm tree, adding construction paper leaves.
"The little kids love looking at it," said principal Linda. "The second-graders get excited that they get to be part of it."
"I know the kids look forward to testing now and don't dread it," said Sue. "Hopefully, that will help with the results."
Students learn how they did at November report card time. Abigail rated the tets "sometimes hard, sometimes very easy."
The timed element makes students nervous, but decorating was a pleasant distraction.
"Helping and being able to see what it all looks like is really cool," said Abigail.
The week leading up to the tests, creativity came into play when classes competed in a decorate-your-classroom-door contest. Fifth and seventh grades tied.
The fifth-graders built a dragon around a doorknob. To open the door, open the dragon's mouth. Seventh-graders offered two upbeat messages -- "Reach for your goals" and "Don't go bananas over tests" -- mixed into a tree full of bananas and monkeys.
Both classes win a pizza party.
Snacks with a clever twist were also part of the jungle equation.
Each Cathedral teacher found an animal print bag of candy hanging on her door Monday morning. The attached note read, "Kiss the testing jitters goodbye," and instructed teachers to give each student three chocolate kisses during a testing break.
The next day's message: "Good luck, today. Enjoy your jungle animals."
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People were racing around Elkhart Saturday trying to win $1,000. It was the Church Community Services Amazing Elkhart Race. 19 teams started in Downtown Elkhart then took off from there to compete in physical and mental challenges across the city.
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simpl speling June 2001 part 3.
Jean Wilkinson USA writes:
Dear President Bush ...
This is an edited version of a letter Jean sent to President George W Bush and his secretary of education, Dr Roderick Paige.I saw Charlotte's Web on the Disney Channel last night. I was heartsick. I had thought that children could at least watch the Disney Channel safely. Not so. No adult in the story was loving.
Moral: Don't look for love in adults. Lots of children watched that show.
Therefore: Raising your standards in education requires not only tightening up on discipline and demanding more of students (the cold adults of Charlotte's Web) but pressing your teachers to truly care about and encourage their struggling kids. Kids do look for love in adults.
Therefore: Along with your wonderful return to fonics (please - a good basis in fonics, not just a side dish), please recommend that praise be given for words a student writes with accurate fonics, even tho the traditional spelling is different. This spelling is always readable. [1]
Because it will make sense. Traditional spelling often does not. Of all current languages, English spelling is the most inconsistent. [2]
Case in point: How do u pronounce ea? Eat, great, bread, heart, earth, and hear - six different pronunciations - are all familiar words to first-graders. Plus beautiful, realize, and create, which they can expect to run into in the whole-language method of teaching reading. Not long after, they'll meet sergeant, beau, and meander - 12 pronunciations of ea! We don't have to make it that hard for them! No other language does!' [3]
The greatest contribution your administration can make to the long-term survival of the United States as a nation (beyond the economy and defense) is to put us on the road to an up-to-date English orthografy. So more of our kids can become literate before they give up. Efforts are also being made in England, Australia, and New Zealand to make this world-wide. We need to get together and choose a single orthografy.
English is also receiving criticism as the international trade language because it is too difficult to learn. But Chinese can now be written in the Roman alfabet, specifically to make it easier for foreigners to learn. And Germany, the financial center for the euro, is pushing German.
There are currently four new English orthografies in limited use: Cut Spelling (England), International English Spelling (Australia), RITE (international), and SoundSpel (ALC New York). Cut Spelling fixes our main spelling problems in clever, creative way, but doesn't touch the rarer problems. International Spelling fixes everything, using some of the same ideas as Cut Spelling. The creators of the first two orthografies say not all of their suggestions need be employed; we can adopt part or all. So if we start with the parts where the two overlap we should be on solid ground.
The international Simplified Spelling Society advises that an on-going committee be appointed to oversee the appropriate evolution of future English spelling. They are needed yesterday (!), now that US tv personnel are required to say goverment and perscription and Febuary. David Gergen went out of his way one night to say comf-ter-ble. I wrote and asked him how these words were to be spelled now. I received no answer. If we don't adapt the spellings to match at the same time, we'll just be driving our kids crazy that much faster. Please give us a committee to up-date spelling quickly!
Theodore Roosevelt gave a shove to updating our spelling by encouraging a change from colour, labour, etc; centre, theatre, etc; hiccough, plough, and a few other words. Also on the list were through/thru, and though/tho. All, these two need is a little push. We still need to push tongue/tung and many more.
There are rules for the spelling of English. I've forgotten how many hundred. If the rules of basketball changed very few seconds, would u play?
[1] I once taught an eighth-grade student, of normal intelligence, who had to look in the dictionary to find how to spell as. As an adult he dropped in to see me. He said he could read okay, but he never wrote except to sign his name. But he could write fonetically and be understood. This should become socially acceptable. Our spelling traditions are not cast in stone.
[2] 'About half of all English words can be spelled correctly on fonologically bases alone'. Hanna, Paul, et al, Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences as Clues to Spelling Improvement, US Dept of Education and Welfare, 1966, p 122. So what are we going to do about the other hall This is a fenomenal proportion!
[3] 'At least the following languages have, for educational reasons, modernized their writing systems during [the 20th] century (some more than once): Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Irish, Japanese, Malay/Indonesian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. English neglects this essential task to the inevitable detriment of its educational standards.' Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, J27 1997/1, p 28.
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Who will care about our 'optimum solution'?
Nelson Helm, USA.
Changing how civilians dress does not much resemble changing how soldiers dress.
In the military, a centralized command orders a change; eg, a decade ago in the US, when US Marine Corps officers carried 'swagger sticks,' the commandant said that any officer who 'needed' one was free to carry one. 'That was the last anyone saw a swagger stick.
Civilians, not subject to a centralized authority or discipline, pay much to dress as they please, fight dress codes vigorously, as those of u with children can attest.
Only in countries like China under Mao and Iran, where morals police can fine and jail offenders, do we see broad conformity.
I judge that authority over English spelling is distributed over 450,000,000 or more persons, very decentralized. It's more like changing how civilians dress than like changing military uniforms.
If we arrive at what we consider an optimum solution, who will care? Who, outside our group of 20 or 200 will have any sense of ownership of it Or loyalty to it?
No publisher, politician, or university can long survive bucking public opinion. Publishers, democratic governments, universities must cater to the public.
Should publishers, politicians or academics lead, I doubt they'll influence many. Have u noticed how much persons respect the political opinions of Oxbridge and Ivy League political scientists? the religious teachings of church hierarchies? Teddy Roosevelt and Mark Twain (pretty big names)? and The Chicago Tribune (used some fonetic spelling for years).
I have. Not much.
Most everyone considers themself competent in English, and has strong opinions.
I predict that like a legislative bill drafted by a select committee when it reaches the floor of Parliament or Congress, our optimum solution will be torn to shreds by newly threatened groups that proponents didn't know existed.
I reflected on these words:
'Some want absolute correspondence between spelling and talking. Some want one foneme for each grafeme. Some want one grafeme for each foneme. Some want the grafemes to match those in other languages. Some want the new spellings to look like the old. Some want to change minimally, to make changing easier. Some want all QWERTY characters. Some want all QWERTY characters on the bottom three rows, and no characters requiring the shift key where we do not already use a shift key. Some want a comprehensive, internally consistent system. Some want to grope along, one step at a time.'
To me, they mean that however persons spell, some will work less, others more. Will present readers who have already worked to team traditional spelling work little, and new learners work more?
Who gets to vote? Not non-extant posterity! Not primary school students! I cannot imagine that those most likely to learn and benefit will have much influence on how and what they get taught.
I take judicial notice, ie, I assert without evidence, that most writers of English, ie, substantially all who get to vote, are too old to learn new languages easily. The window closes around age 12, does it not?
I have trouble imagining that the older, influential persons will spend years learning new ways to do what they believe they already do fluently.
I invite examples of similar revolutions that 'worked,' similar to the example of Dvorak key-boards, a revolution which did not work.
What do voters want? How much do they want it?
We might poll, asking many writers of English many detailed questions about what they like and dislike. Better yet, experiment with them, to learn how and what they choose.
Then, we would know better not only what persons generally want, but how to group persons into interest groups or constituencies, and what different groups like and dislike.
If I despaired, I'd find another project.
yet ...
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Spelling on the net with Steve Bett.
US-UK differences in audio files.Audio files show the difference between British and American accents at
Building on the ascii-ipa notation of Evan Kishenbaum, Markus Laker built an introduction to the sounds of English and notations for fonemic transcription. Laker lists both IPA and ASCII-IPA notation and provides clickable audio files so the reader can hear sample words spoken by American and British speakers. This was a major accomplishment in 1998 when the page was created. Today we have easy ways to create MP3 audio files using free voice-mail utilities such as TalkSender.
The 50 sound signs of Englik X include both dominant accents
David Kelley's Englik X, a new ascii-ipa notation, is one of the few that can distinguish between the American and English pronunciation of the word, HERDER. hxxrdxr / hxxdx [where x = schwa and double letters indicate extended vowels]. Spanglish, for instance, merges /ʒ:/ and /ʌ/ when spelling hurrder. The double consonant indicates stress in Spanglish and RITE. upper/uppa, butter/butta.
New Truespel fonetic converter.www.unifon.org/ssn-jun01.html#truespelconverter
The BTRSPL on-line converters have been around for a couple of years. The first, developed by Alan Mole, had to be downloaded. Then Steven Bird, with some help from me, built an on-line converter using Mole's dictionaries for Cut Spelling, ALC Fonetic, and Truespel. Tom Zurinskas recently increased the size of the Truespel dictionary from 7000 words to 70,000 words. Stephan Böhmig and Alberto Fontaneda at www.foreignword.com then updated the conversion engine. Now up to 500 words at a time may be cut and pasted into the converter window. Almost immediately, the converted text appears in a second window. Most reform notations can be read with little difficulty.
Writing in a reform notation is another matter. The converter is both a quick solution to the problem of writing and a tool to learn how to write in the reform notation. Teachers wishing to use a reform notation as an ita can use the converter to convert any of the more than 10,000 stories that are available on-line.
At present on-line transcribers or converters are available for only three reform notations: Truespel, ALC Fonetic, and Cut Spelling. Others can be added to the list as soon as someone builds the dictionary for them. It takes about a week to create the 60,000-word comma delimited database. Tom built his dictionary in Excel. An .xls file can be saved in several different formats including a comma delimited text file. [See links to conversion software.]
The orthografic challenge.www.unifon.org/ssn-jun01.html/ortho
I have proposed a series of studies that would vividly contrast reform notations and traditional orthografy. One study is designed to highlight the speed with which a fonemic notation can be acquired by a non-English speaker. Few believe that someone can learn to read English in less than two hours. Many assume it takes four years. What can be learned in less than two hours is a symbol/sound correspondence table.
The task would be to read aloud a passage written in English in one or more fonemic scripts. The foreigner could create a sound file using TalkSender, which adds a sound file to email. A native speaker would attempt to transcribe the sound file back into a traditional written form.
The original message would then be compared with the transcribed message and errors tallied. The hypothesis is that attempts to read traditional English will fail while the attempt to read a fonemic script will be successful with over 90% of the meaning being conveyed compared to 50% when the notation is the traditional writing system (TS).
Are 70% solutions really easier to sell?www.unifon.org/ssn-jun01.html
Fonemic solutions to the alfabet problem will respell 60% of the words in English. A 70% solution such as RITE and Fastrspel will respell 30%. Saxon Alphabet Spelling Pronunciation respells 15%.
It is clear that the general public will resist any attempt to respell 60% of the words in the dictionary. It is likely that they will resist a proposal to respell 30% or even 15%. The logic of a 70% solution is that resistance to it will be half that of a 100% solution. This is a hypothesis that needs to be tested.
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Talepeace.Over coffee we were discussing spelling. One said she was a 'creative speller.' They decided to classify me as a speller. 'Political,' suggested one. 'Efficient', said another. 'A thinker'. 'So,' came a response, 'a political, efficient, spelling thinker - PEST!'
- Allan Campbell
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Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones has caught two touchdown passes from Matt Ryan as the Falcons continue to dismantle the New York Giants. Jones has six receptions for 74 yards and two scores on the day.
Jones has gone over 1,000 yards receiving on the season with his performance against the Giants. He caught his first touchdown early in the third quarter and added another score late in the fourth.
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text: Tuesday's Bangor Daily News reports on plans for a Thursday Aroostook County motorcade and funeral, honoring and remembering Marine Lt. James Zimmerman, who was killed last week while serving in Afghanistan. Zimmerman was a 2008 UMaine graduate, commissioned as a Marine officer upon completion of UMaine's Navy ROTC program. The motorcade will begin in Smyrna, traveling to Houlton where an 11 a.m. funeral will be held at the high school.


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Football is violent by design. Opposing linemen crash into each other on every play, and when a defender gets a chance to put a big hit on a running back, or a receiver, or on the biggest prize of all, the quarterback, he throws himself into it. The result can be painful to watch, but the real pain is felt by the players, often on both sides of the hit. They're battered, belted, crushed, clobbered. They fall to the gridiron. Muscles can tear and bones can break. But more often, a big hit leaves players dizzy, dazed, or knocked cold -- signs that their brains have been concussed.. Sportscasters say, "He got his bell rung on that one!" Fans say, "That's what I'm talking about!" Coaches say, "Is he OK, can he play?" Players say, "Yeah, I'm OK, I can play."
All the hits, from routine collisions to bell-ringers, add up in a game, a season, a career. One would think that hard helmets and skulls would protect the spongy brains of players from harm. According to the lawsuits filed against the NFL, one would be wrong to think that. In fact, 2,400 former players say the NFL has long known that the repeated hits experienced by players can lead to permanent brain damage and that helmets, pads, and other gear offer little protection.
So, as OJ's lawyer might put it, if the league knew, then the players sue, and if they win, they get I-O-Us. It could cost the league hundreds of millions. Maybe more.
Do you think the players have a case? And if they win, what are the implications for NCAA football? High school football? Pop Warner? Will flag football transition from intramural fields to NFL and college and high school stadiums? Will American Football be replaced with what the rest of the world calls football (hint: soccer, and don't get me started about "headers").


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A Connecticut man says someone stole a treasure that won't be easy to replace.
Mike Meehan says a 170-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint was stolen from his office.
He owns a quarry near Hartford and found the imprint more than a decade ago.
So far police say they don't have any suspects in the case.
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A former hand surgeon and founder of the Brown Hand Center will spend up to 180 days in jail after he was found guilty of contempt of court during a court appearance related to a child support violation case filed against him.
The jail sentence for Michael Brown, 55, is the latest in a series of legal troubles for the former surgeon who was well-known for appearing in television commercials promoting the Brown Hand Center clinics.
Brown was arrested on a charge of interfering with a flight crew on Jan. 2. That and other charges were filed against him in Florida were related to a British Airways flight that landed in Miami in January.
Brown was also charged with assault of a family member based on an August 2010 incident involving his then-estranged fourth wife Rachel, but he was found not guilty in September 2011 following a very public trial.
In 2002, Brown pleaded 'no contest' to assaulting his third wife, who was pregnant at the time.
Brown lost his medical license when he tested positive for cocaine in 2006. He opened the first Brown Hand Center clinic in 1988. The clinics continue to operate in Houston and five other U.S. cities with other doctors at the helm.
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Oregon Mayor Mike Seferian and Councilman Terry Reeves, chairman of Oregon's Recreation and Parks Committee, last summer told the president of the James "Wes" Hancock Senior Center that accurate information on a proposed 0.5-mill senior services levy should be provided to voters to increase chances of getting it passed.
Seferian and Reeves told Bob Marquette, president of the center, that voters don't like to be "duped."
An upgrade in the village administration's telephone system is almost complete in Genoa.
The communications update was necessary given the old system was nearly 15 years old, administrator Kevin Gladden said.
Liberty Consulting, also known as ISSO, is the company charged with handling the changeover. The estimated cost is about $12,000 but the final bill won't be issued until the project is finished in the next few weeks, according to Chuck Brinkman, village fiscal officer.
The 12 years Ron Sims was a member of the Lake Township Board of Trustees marked one of the most progressive periods in the township history – highlighted by the construction of new facilities and parks, the creation of a police K-9 unit and a Special Response Team, the acquisition of modern vehicles and equipment for the police and fire departments and other advancements, said Richard Welling, a trustee, who paid tribute Monday to Sims during the trustees' final meeting of 2013.
Strike Zone Sports Training co-owner Garry Isbell said he has always dreamed of opening a sports training facility, and now that dream is coming to fruition.
Strike Zone, an 18,500-square-foot facility located in the Great Eastern Shopping Plaza (2660 Woodville Rd.), will host a grand opening on Saturday, Jan. 4.
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North Cumbria Trust bottom of national survey
Only 35% of staff working at the hospitals in Carlisle and Whitehaven would recommend the treatment available there.
The NHS national survey of just over 100,000 staff members, found that of 161 NHS trusts in England, the North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust came bottom.
The Morecambe Bay Trust, which runs the hospitals in Kendal, Barrow and Lancaster also did badly, with only 49% of staff there recommending the treatment they offered.
In the survey, staff were asked to respond to the statement:
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"If a friend or relative needed treatment, I would be happy with the standard of care provided by this organisation"
...and had to say whether they strongly agreed, agreed, disagreed, strongly disagreed or had no view.
The figures published in the Daily Telegraph found that nationally, around 60% of NHS staff would recommend the treatment at their hospitals to friends and family.


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Tuscaloosa police are investigating after a man is shot in the back of the leg while standing in his carport.
Investigators were called to 3728 26th Street Sunday in reference to a shooting. The 43-year-old male victim was shot once. He was taken to DCH for treatment. He is expected to be okay.
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Detroit Institute of Art's Collection at Risk
Auguste Rodin's sculpture 'The Thinker' is shown outside the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. / Paul Sancya/Associated Press [source]
City finances are really bad in Detroit and a once-sacred cow is now looking like cheeseburgers in an ongoing downturn economy. This has led to an unprecedented area of inquiry about ownership of and leveraging as assets valuable historical works in the Detroit Institute of Art's collection:
The possible forced sale of some of the DIA's greatest treasures — including some of the world's most famous paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, and scores of other masterpieces, is sending shock waves through the museum world.
"There would be hue and cry the likes of which you've never heard," said Ford Bell, president of the American Alliance of Museums in Washington, D.C. "The museum should be a rallying point for the rebirth of Detroit and not a source of funds."
Museums are not required by federal accounting rules to list their collections as assets. However, at the request of the Free Press, art dealers in New York and metro Detroit reviewed a list of 38 of the greatest masterpieces owned by the museum and estimated a market value of at least $2.5 billion with pieces such as Bruegel's "The Wedding Dance," van Gogh's "Self-Portrait" and Matisse's "The Window" all carrying estimates of between $100 million and $150 million each.
The estimates amount to educated guesses, however, because works of such historical value and quality hardly ever come on the market.
Even by considering selling off artwork, Orr, the DIA and the city are entering uncharted territory. Art law experts said that they were unaware of any precedents of a city being forced to sell works in a municipal bankruptcy.
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Picasso's "Rinsed Print"
Jacqueline by Pablo Picasso, linocut, 1959
I love the simple but brilliant technical execution of this piece. The image has a nice smoky bluish color most like the above photograph. Referred to in the museum exhibition as a "rinsed print", the steps are wonderfully simple. The uncut block was printed onto the page in a solid filed of black. Then the lines were cut for the drawing; the lines of the portrait were cut into the same block which was inked in a layer of transparent white and printed onto the solid black field. The black had a bluish tinge, which resulted in the final colour of the print.
The ease of this technique is that there is less cutting of the block. You only have to actually cut the lines away that you want to show as a positive, instead of doing the reverse and cutting away all of the negative space to expose the lines of the image. You have to print the page twice to make this work but the effect of the more transparent, glaze-like second ink is visually interesting.
Anna Pavlova with Jack
This studio portrait of ballet dancer Anna Pavlova shows her with a pet swan named Jack. She left behind so many wonderful images and dance photographs; this one is fitting for Pavlova who had danced portraying a swan so many times. This plate is from Anna Pavlova: In Art & Life [1932] by spouse Victor Dandré and he indicated Jack as her favorite swan. There are many warm stories of the couple's pets and the dancer's love of nature and animals.
The book is laid out in sections detailing her career, impact on dance, personal life, tours, charitable works and final hours. It's a bit heart wrenching in its loving tribute as Dandré took to writing it after her death in 1931. He meshes what had to have been a lifetime of notes and records as her manager with his personal recollections in such an engrossing manner. What I know about dance would not fill a thimble but I do love a good biography.
Charles M. Schulz Mail Art
I went the the Charles M. Schulz "Peanuts" exhibit at the Museum of Science & Industry. A wall graphic showed a cartoon he had drawn on a piece of mail and a page from his sketchbook from his service during WWII. I wish they had shown more! I was sure to take pictures:
The Coffee House by Alson Skinner Clark
I took some photographs and close up shots of this painting of Chicago, which is just perfect to enjoy this time of year. The artist captured the effects of the weather wonderfully. It hangs in a less frequented corner of the American collection snuggled in with the Craftsman and Prairie style works.
The Coffee House by Alson Skinner Clark [1876-1949] oil on canvas, 38″ x 30″ [96.5 x 76.2 cm], winter 1905-1906
From the museum catalog:
In The Coffee House, Alson Skinner Clark painted Chicago on a winter day, with ice floating down the river and the city's skyscrapers looming through smoke and fog. The State Street bridge, with its characteristic curving ironwork, draws the viewer's eye into the picture. Clark's scene is in the tradition of the urban realism of the French Impressionists, recalling such pictures as Claude Monet's Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877; Art Institute of Chicago). Like Monet, Clarke sought to suggest both the ephemeral nature of fog and smoke and the atmosphere's effect upon the forms of the city.
Andy Warhol Portrait
This is a great old photograph. I do wish it was a Polaroid as well. I recently found a package of many years old Polaroid instant film like this in a bodega near my apartment for $10; the expiration date was 1999. I wonder if the film would even work after all this time. Earlier in the week, I was talking to a older gentleman who has the chance to buy a Warhol silkscreen on paper. It was from the Coca-Cola series, and he said he had reservations at the time about buying it for $50. I asked if he's kicking himself now and he could only just shake his head.
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The artist differs from the ordinary person partly by his ability to make what he sees a public object, but chiefly in the range and depth of vision itself. The first depends upon technical training and competence, but this simply as a matter of skill is far from qualifying any one for the production of authentic works of art. A work of art is a creation, and the creation is not accomplished in the act of embodying in a material object what is already in the artist's mind, but in the act of insight into the objective world by virtue of which it assumes form and order. Hence the artist is primarily the discoverer, just as the scientist is; the scientist discovers abstract symbols which may be used for purposes of calculation and prediction; the artist, the qualities of thing which heighten their human significance. What these qualities are depends upon the individual artist and the medium in which he works. The comic, the pathetic, the ironic, the sublime, and the tragic are aspects of experience which can best be expressed by the writer, since they appear fully only in situations which develop in time, and a picture, though its perception takes time, obviously cannot depict a course of events. The painter is not debarred from the use of such values, since he can show manifestations of them in the visible world -the satire of Goya or Daumier, the natural majesty of Claude le Lorrain, the religious mysticism of El Greco, the human poignancy of Rembrandt are obvious instances- but the qualities which lie most immediately in his province are those more directly apprehended by sight. Color, line, light, mass -these things, as immediately experienced, are illuminated for us by the painter. Upon them he focuses the funded experience which, richer in him than in the ordinary man, enables him to single out whatever is moving or significant, and set it in the context of relations needed to reveal its intrinsic nature. The revelation of significance is what constitutes the expression of the artist, and the fact that it is a revelation, not merely a game or indulgence in the make-believe, appears from the dissatisfaction we feel when the object set before us turns out to be illusory of fraudulent. Expressive form in other words, always involves the perception of something real.
- The Art in Painting by Albert C. Barnes, copyright 1925, third edition 1937
The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur
The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur, oil on canvas, 96 1/4″ x 199 1/2″, 1853.
If you ever get to visit the Met in NYC, find this amazing painting. Rosa Bonheur [1822-1899] was a French painter known for her animal art. She had shown her work in two Salons and was awarded the Legion of Honor but was more popular in the United Kingdom than in France. The scale and details of this work are just amazing; it takes up a wall and takes you right to the scene being shown.
Portrait Bust of a Woman
If only the Romans had carved the names of everyone into everything like the Egyptians did, we might know whose portrait this is. Perhaps they put to much faith into the portraits being carefully handed down throughout their family lineage. They never saw those Visigoths coming. This piece has been returned to display at the Museum of the Art Institute Chicago and photographing it at night came out particularly good. I photographed both sides and the front to show all the detail in the hair.
Portrait Bust of a Woman, Roman, A.D. 140-50, marble.
Resting by Antonio Mancini
Resting by Antonio Mancini [Italian], oil on canvas, c. 1887, 23 5/8 x 39 3/8 [60.9 x 100 cm] [source]
This painting at the Museum of the Art Institute in Chicago is one of the strangest Impressionist pieces. The paint is so thick and rough on the canvas, the texture is thick and built up, yet the picture has a woman, soft bedding and glass containers. The paint has to be at last an inch thick in some areas, maybe more. It has to be the thickest, most heavily textured application of paint of any Impressionist piece. At least it seems like it to me. The contrast in person of the rough texture versus the soft subject is really strange. I took some close up photos to better show the thick impasto. The above image from the museum website does not capture the density of the paint. Yet from a distance the optical blending is marvelous and the coarse texture subsides and is subordinate to the image.


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Don't judge me: Why I ate my team in Gods Will Be Watching
"You are Sgt. Burden, and remember: Gods Will Be Watching. 40 days left."
With just a single stage, seven characters, and the crackling of a fire pit, Gods Will Be Watching is the epitome of "minimalism," the theme of Ludum Dare's most recent 48-hour game design competition in April. GWBW was created in less than two days as part of that competition, but it has emerged as a memorable work of considerable emotional heft.
The title, Gods Will Be Watching, bursts in front of your eyes at the title screen in stark white text across a pure black background. This is a message they want burned into the back of your eyes as you begin your quest to survive the alien wastes.
I took control of the leader of a small band of researchers stranded on the beach of an alien lake. There's a small story primer, but that's not what matters. The story is this: I will survive. At all costs.
GWBW does for Oregon Trail what Canabalt did for Super Mario Bros. My team consists of seven members: five humans, one android, and Marvin…a Rottweiler. The goal is to survive the harshness of the alien environment while ensuring the upkeep of supplies as well as the health and mental stability of every group member while repairing a radio to call for help. It's true achievement isn't in drastically refining the survival formula, but in outfitting it with a wonderful minimalist atmosphere that greatly enhances the whole by empowering your imagination.
Unfortunately, you will not survive, but you will remember how you died.
30 days left
"I want players to experience suffering, pity and commitment: values I've enjoyed in very few games," said Jordi De Paco, lead designer at Deconstructeam in Valencia, Spain. "I prefer when those feelings aren't driven by the plot, but by yourself. The reward is greater when you do good, but have not been forced to."
Like all good survival games, GWBW starts out with a feeling of hope. I confidently strode among my crew in good health and good spirits. I barked out orders, spending the precious five actions-per-day as though time was infinite.
A few days passed before I realized that things were beginning to slip, and slowly but surely despair began to set in. Someone got sick, forcing me to spend actions to create medicine to heal them. Members of my team started to get lonely and despondent. I had to take time out of the day to talk to them and comfort them. If I didn't, they might have died of a terrible disease or run away from the camp.
I soon discovered that there were other options. Why keep weaklings around, consuming precious resources and actions when they could actually benefit the collective? After the fifth day, I wanted to save everyone. After the twentieth day I found myself saying things like, "nobody is abandoning this camp with food still attached to their bones."
"I felt that the title "Gods Will Be Watching" had a very deep resonance with the role that the player has to play, making hard decisions in order to survive," said De Paco. "I love when games present you with moral dilemmas, and Sgt Burden has to face 40 days of them, so… what could be better than feeling the eyes of many gods judging every decision you make?"
20 days left
De Paco might think I give a damn about what the supposed gods think of my actions, but they know nothing of the struggles of mortals. Morale in the camp was at all all-time low and food was scarce. The psychiatrist was infected with a disease, and we couldn't spare the time to get her healed.
What was I supposed to do? Let her die slowly, letting the disease spread into her muscles, making her impossible to eat? No. I had every intention of surviving, and survival is nasty business. We didn't have the luxury of immortality like those who sought to judge us.
So I did what I had to do. I put a lazer round in her chest, and we lived another day. There were still problems, but we were fed and that was enough.
10 days left
The soldier couldn't cope with the loneliness anymore, and ran off in the middle of the night. He lost his mind, and we're not likely to hear from him again. At least I hope we don't. He ran off with a week's worth of meat still attached to his bones. That's against my rules.
Unfortunately, this is turning into a cascading situation. All that's left is me, the Engineer, a dog, and an android. We were already on our last leg, but that leg was swept from underneath us when a pack of wolves showed up to steal our Psychiatrist meat.
That's when I remember something that I'd forgotten. The Engineer was married to the Psychiatrist, and now he's rocking back and forth rapidly as though his mind is about to break.


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Reel Rock has once again returned to the campus of Lyon College in Batesville, AR. Nov. 1 at 7:00pm there will be a screening of this exiting new film. This event is hosted by Lyon College's outdoor Program LEAP. This goes hand and hand with the King of the Crag climbing competition the morning after. Climbers are encourged to attend the Reel Rock Screening, camp at Jamestown then wake up for a day of climbing. King of the Crag climbers get in FREE> General public will be charged $5.00 for entry. Bring a lawnchair, blanket, snacks and cooler. For more info contact Kyle at 870-613-4662.


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The parents of a murdered Auburn University student are now suing the school.
Lauren Burk was abducted from the campus during an attempted robbery in 2008.
She was shot in the chest while trying to escape.
The family now says her death might have been prevented if the university had a police department.
Burk was a graduate of Walton High School in Marietta.
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Whose to Blame for Ocean Trash? Giant Garbage Patches Help Redefine Ocean BoundariesSep. 2, 2014 Researchers have created a new model that could help determine what area of the world is to blame for each ocean garbage patch of floating debris – a difficult task for a system as complex and ... full story
Exceptionally Well Preserved Insect Fossils from the Rhône Valley FoundSep. 2, 2014 In Bavaria, the Tithonian Konservat-Lagerstätte of lithographic limestone is well known as a result of numerous discoveries of emblematic fossils from that area (for example, Archaeopteryx). Now, ... full story
Rainfall Monitoring: Mobile Phones Are Taking OverSep. 2, 2014 Agriculture, water resource management, drought and flood warnings, etc.: rainfall monitoring is vital in many areas. But the observation networks remain insufficient. This is not the case for ... full story
Nature's Tiny Engineers: Corals Control Their Environment, Stirring Up Water Eddies to Bring NutrientsSep. 1, 2014 Conventional wisdom has long held that corals -- whose calcium-carbonate skeletons form the foundation of coral reefs -- are passive organisms that rely entirely on ocean currents to deliver ... full story
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Atmospheric Mercury Review Raises Concerns of Environmental ImpactAug. 28, 2014 The cycling of mercury through soil and water has been studied as it impacts atmospheric loadings, researchers report. Recent studies that show increasing levels of mercury in the ocean's upper ... full story
Protected Areas Proven to Protect BiodiversityAug. 28, 2014 Protected areas conserve biodiversity, experts say, and more action is needed to ensure safeguards are in place to protect these areas. "Our work has now shown that protected areas have ... full story
Where You Live May Be Putting You at Risk for Foodborne Illness, Researcher FindsAug. 28, 2014 A study on multiple countries finds that food safety education is lacking. Improving education about food-handling practices may decrease foodborne illness, thus improving food ... full story
From Water to Land and Back, the Mosquitofish Is on a RollAug. 27, 2014 Some fish will leap out of water to escape a predator, but biologists have observed that the mosquitofish chooses the most energy-efficient method for returning -- a finding that has evolutionary ... full story
Water 'Thermostat' Could Help Engineer Drought-Resistant CropsAug. 27, 2014 A gene that could help engineer drought-resistant crops has been identified by researchers. The gene, called OSCA1, encodes a protein in the cell membrane of plants that senses changes in water ... full story
Walking Fish Reveal How Our Ancestors Evolved Onto LandAug. 27, 2014 About 400 million years ago a group of fish began exploring land and evolved into tetrapods – today's amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. But just how these ancient fish used their fishy ... full story
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- Reducing water scarcity possible by 2050
- Not all phytoplankton in the ocean need to take their vitamins
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- Water 'thermostat' could help engineer drought-resistant crops
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Frank and Jon Jasper standing in the bottom of narrow slot canyon of Bull Valley Gorge located within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
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Late December 2013. The park was deserted.
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Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.
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More Accolades for PUMA's Faas 500April 07, 2011
The Faas 500 takes the first place position from Competitor Magazine's review of the best new running shoes for this spring. The Faas 500 is noted for its casual yet high performance "kick." That "kick" is a result of the BioRide technology, our brain child from the research from the Faas Lab.
March 2011
PUMA Running Supports Red Cross and Actor Josh Duhamel in Relief Run for JapanMarch 30, 2011
Last Sunday, PUMA supported Actor Josh Duhamel and the American Red Cross as part of his Relief Run for Japan. Duhamel was in full PUMA gear, including his Faas 500's as he led the run. :)
Not Your Typical High School Track & Field Meet: Champs 2011March 30, 2011
PUMA Running is headed down to Jamaica to visit "Champs" - the Jamaican High School Track&Field Championships and one of the world's most unique high school Track&Field meets. Champs is the place is where young track athletes become legends and where greats like Usain Bolt are born.
Faas 500 Wins More Hearts - Voted 'Best New Shoe'March 23, 2011
When you're in the shoe business two of the most important times of the year is Fall and Spring. Why? It's when running publications release their shoe reviews. For us these shoe reviews are similar to what a progress report may be for a student. They inform us how our shoes fair against the competition.
February 2011
Kudos to Faas 500 - Voted 2011 Editor's Choice AwardFebruary 01, 2011
We love the new PUMA Faas 500 and believe they are one of the best running shoes out in the market. So, when we learned the Faas 500 was voted Editor's Choice by experts in the Footwear Industry, we were ecstatic.
January 2011
Faas Lab Makes a Guest Appareance at Sundance Film FestivalJanuary 25, 2011
It's 10am and despite the early hour for these partying celebrities at the Sundance Film Festival, there is a loud buzz coming from the PUMA Faas Lab Lounge at The Samsung Galaxy Tab Lift.


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By MARK HANOK
When it's warmer to the north and cooler to the south, it's so easy to get into an extremely dry weather pattern in Otsego County. The weather forecast in last week's weather column was more optimistic than other local weather forecasts, but the weather was actually much better than even we predicted.
Once again, we got an example of how a southerly storm track can bring an upside-down temperature pattern that signals very dry air and bright sunshine in the Cooperstown area. This kind of weather pattern is actually more common in March than many local residents may believe, and once we get into a very dry weather pattern, it's difficult to get any significant precipitation.
The last several days has featured classic maple sugaring weather in our area, with cold nights and very mild, sunny days. This pattern will continue all weekend and right through at least the beginning of next week.
No major storms are anywhere in sight, and it looks like March will turn out to be the third straight month with below normal precipitation.
In fact, after a third of normal precipitation in February, we'll be lucky to get two-thirds of normal precipitation in March. Friday through Wednesday, extremely dry conditions will prevail, with near-normal temperatures. Cold nights and mild, sunny days will continue to favor maple sugaring in our region.
On Friday as low pressure moves northward to eastern Canada, a colder northerly flow will take over, with unlimited sunshine, azure-blue skies and very dry air; highs in the low 40s.
Crystal clear skies will continue all weekend, with brilliant sunshine Saturday, Sunday and Monday, as a large area of high pressure builds eastward from the Great Lakes to New England; highs 42 to 47 degrees. As a milder southwesterly flow takes over, skies will be partly sunny with highs in the low 50s on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mark Hanok is an Otegobased meteorologist.