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Justin Bieber is off the hook for a felony in the alleged phone jacking at a batting cage last month ... because there is ZERO evidence he did anything wrong.
According to the Los Angeles D.A. ... LAPD investigated a San Fernando Valley woman's claim Biebs grabbed her phone out of her purse which led to a tug-of-war between the two ... but cops found nothing to support her allegations.
Cops interviewed 9 witnesses at Sherman Oaks Castle Park ... and none of them saw the singer involved in any sort of altercation.
The D.A. rejected felony prosecution -- and sent the case to the City Attorney who could still charge him with a misdemeanor... but given what cops found, it seems unlikely.
Justin's not totally out of the legal woods, however, 'cause the D.A. is still considering charging him with a felony in the neighbor egging case.
One down, one to go.
No one cares about that little brat anymore.
Talent = Money = Power. Can't do nuthin' about dat. Biebs can't be stopped by da haterz. NO WITNESSES! HAHA, thanks for playing. Try again next time. Haterz gonna hate but da playerz gonna play. Truth.
What happened to the case of assault on the limo driver in Toronto? That's a pretty serious charge.
I can't believe they are still investigating the egg toss! What a joke. It's been months. His neighbor should just sue him and that's it
I can't stand the little azz pimple. But even little nad blisters like him should get a fair shake.
Justin laughs at the world --- yet again. No one's stopping this guy. He's got the looks, the money, the power, the girls... and the juries on his side. Keep waisting your time. Guess that woman is still content with her 5 seconds of fame.
This isn't rocket science. If you don't want to be photographed in public then... wait for it... wait for it... DON'T GO OUT IN PUBLIC!
I agree though, this punk needs a good ass beating to adjust his attitude.
this is why he and his goons do the things they do..see lindsay lohan for further reference
Boy before it was Michael Jackson who got sued thousand times now JB is on top ... When people smell easy money they just say anything !
The D.A is afraid to Prosecute Beibs for Vandalizing a House with Video Evidence, did anyone believe that Beibs would be Prosecuted for this?
Who cares about this punk? what about Harrison Fords injury on Star Wars set?
He is just a male Lohan. He can do whatever he likes and be forgiven for it by the public or have the law look the other way. The best punishment for Bieber would be if everyone ignored his desperate attention thirsty antics and put him on mute.
What this lil twerp really needs is a straight up ass whopping to take him down a notch or two , but it won't happen cause of the goons who watch over his lil punk azz !!!
justin one more time. How many times


text: The Current Cinema November 5, 2007 Issue Drug Warriors "American Gangster." By David Denby Table of Contents Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in Ridley Scott's new movie. Credit JOHN RITTER Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), the dazzling thug in "American Gangster," is a man particular in his ways, and, early in the movie, he sees something that bothers him. For years, Frank, a real-life figure, was a protégé of the Harlem crime boss Ellsworth (Bumpy) Johnson, and when Bumpy dies, in 1968, the wake at his house draws in the notables—local politicians, assorted mafiosi, and Harlem ruffians, one of whom, an insolent dude named Tango, puts a damp glass of Scotch down on Bumpy's lacquered dining-room table. Frank picks it up, dries off the table, and places the glass on a coaster. For Frank, there is a correct and an incorrect way of doing things, and property like Bumpy's, acquired after long and arduous criminal activity, should be revered. Tango lacks judgment and class—he's a noisy show-off—and some months later Frank, having taken over Bumpy's operation, draws a gun on Tango and, as dozens of people look on, shoots him in the head. Frank is eliminating a rival and also teaching a lesson in etiquette. At roughly the same time, Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), a real-life Essex County, New Jersey, police detective, and his excitable partner, Javier (Javy) Rivera (John Ortiz), discover about a million dollars in unmarked bills in the trunk of a car. Javy reasons that the money has been lifted by a cop during a drug bust, so if he and Richie turn it in they will, in effect, be turning a cop in. Javy is a junkie and a liar, but his logic in this case is impeccable. (We later discover, in an intertextual flourish, that the money may be linked to the French Connection.) Ignoring Javy, Richie counts out the bills in a station house as the upholders of the law eye him balefully. Like Frank Serpico, another honest cop of the period, Richie becomes a pariah, and so obsessed with his job that no one can live with him. His wife takes their son and leaves. Russell Crowe is thick-shouldered and a little heavy in the gut; he gives Richie a quick stumpy walk, and he leans forward when he sits, as if he needed to be close to the ground in order to think. Denzel Washington stands upright, wears perfectly tailored suits, and smiles like the captain of a luxury liner entertaining royal guests. In style, Richie and Frank are as different as a badger and a hawk, but "American Gangster," which was produced by Brian Grazer, written by Steven Zaillian, and directed by Ridley Scott, presents them as equals. They are both ambitious, punctilious, violent men. When they finally meet, they regard each other as spiritual brothers. "American Gangster," which is based on Mark Jacobson's New York profile of Lucas from 2000 (with some parts fictionalized), is a febrile cops-and-robbers picture that has been scaled as an epic. Set in the years 1968 to 1975, it encompasses the rise of black entrepreneurial capitalism in its criminal version, the corruption of law enforcement, and the shadowy crossover between the two. In passing, the filmmakers suggest that America's heroin epidemic in those years grew out of the disintegration of Army morale during the Vietnam War, when thousands of G.I.s got hooked. Scott fills the screen with scenes of Americans shooting up in Bangkok and Harlem, getting rich on crime, and having a terrific time. It's as if the country were transfixed by war, drugs, and violence, with no one but the dour, troubled Nixon as an authority figure. The references to film classics of the period acknowledge the way the crime wave, and the resistance to it, was mythologized even as it was happening. The movie is a descendant not just of "The French Connection" but of the raucous blaxploitation romps of the early seventies. It's "Super Fly"—which also had a drug-dealer hero—without the cartoon cruddiness and the put-on violence and with an enormous increase of range and detail: How is the drug business actually done? How do mules get the stuff from one place to another? The pace of the movie is rapid, almost hectic, the touch glancing. Until the confrontation between Frank and Richie at the end, nothing stays on the screen for long, although Scott, working in the street, or in clubs and at parties, packs as much as he can into the corners of shots, and shapes even the most casual scenes decisively. "American Gangster" has been made with great panache and drive. And it pushes us hard—it asks us to accept the audacity of Frank's methods as not only brave but wittily inventive. Flying to Bangkok in 1968, Frank, against all advice, makes his way through the jungle to northern Thailand, where a courtly Chinese officer—a member of the long-defeated Kuomintang—supervises vast poppy fields. The officer, who may never have seen a black American before, has trouble believing that Frank is capable of taking a hundred or more kilos of uncut heroin into the United States without sponsorship (that is, without the Mafia). But the dope, in pure form, arrives in New York (in spectacularly bizarre fashion), gets cut by naked female "table workers" in Harlem, and is sold on the street at twice the strength and half the price of what the Mafia is selling. Frank has achieved the retailer's dream: he has eliminated the middleman and the competition in a single blow. Later, he summons his five brothers from North Carolina and sets them up in dry-cleaning and auto-repair shops that serve as distribution points; he also buys his elderly mother (Ruby Dee) a huge white-columned house in New Jersey, where she presides at jubilant family dinners. Like many modern gangsters, Frank wants to turn crime into a rational enterprise; he wants to lead an orderly and loving family life, and to play his game so stealthily that he will never be tainted by what he does. And the audience may go along with his self-conception, which also appears to be the moviemakers' conception—that Frank is a cool guy, always shrewd enough to put a coaster under the drinks and leave no marks behind. Denzel Washington's movie-star glow is all-powerful here. Grinning broadly between fits of rage, his Frank Lucas is quicker, smarter, and more charming than anyone else around. He takes the overt menace out of such lines as "I'm a busy man, I got no time to be going to anyone's funeral." He makes it seem less a threat of murder (which it is) than a casual joke. Frank doesn't have to worry much about being caught by the N.Y.P.D., since groups of narcotics officers, led by a goon in black leather (Josh Brolin), occupy themselves with shaking down dealers or selling impounded drugs back to the Mafia. (The movie presents these guys as outrageous creeps who put law enforcement on a lower level than outright criminality.) Trying to get clear of the force, Richie accepts a federal assignment to set up his own group of irregulars. Scott introduces us to this skanky-looking bunch in a New Jersey bar, but he doesn't do much with them. The driving force is always Richie, whom Crowe plays with shambling, low-key intensity. He keeps his voice down and stays calm and logical—as if he knew that it was the only way to compete with Washington's bravura. Our loyalties are split between the hero of virtue and the hero of vice. We don't have to choose, which is fine—irresponsibility is one of the pleasures of narrative movies. But can we accept the movie's glorification of Frank Lucas in the terms in which it's offered? It's true that movie audiences have always relished gangsters. They act out our fantasies of unlimited aggression, and when they are punished with death we are purged of the guilt we've felt from enjoying their rampages. The greatest gangster movies, however, deepen this transaction, taking us closer to the gangster's hopes and illusions, and then turning them inside out. In "The Godfather: Part II," Michael Corleone grows in power and then ravages his family—the thing he most wanted to protect—and we can see him rotting like a dead oak. In "Goodfellas," Ray Liotta's narration revels in the abundant pleasures of criminality, but, as the bad times keep coming, the narration turns anxious and, finally, harrowing. In "American Gangster," however, Frank's ascent is presented simply—not with irony, or as a mini-tragedy, or as a cruel joke on his own community, but as a long-delayed victory of black capitalism. The Mafia, represented by Dominic Cattano (Armand Assante), an immensely dignified grandee, condescends to Frank but then offers to buy some of his product at a discounted rate. The Mafia, in effect, works for Frank, who winds up again and again impressing people not disposed to be impressed by a black man. The movie associates him with Muhammad Ali and, for an instant, with Martin Luther King, Jr. Frank's success, we're meant to believe, is a strike against racism. It's not as if Zaillian and Scott ignore the results of Frank's trade. On the contrary, there are innumerable shots of needles going into the arms of black men and women in Harlem, who then waver from the dope like palm fronds in the heat. But none of this devastation alters the approving portrayal of Frank. After a while, the shallowness of his characterization and the movie's glib impassivity become a little unnerving, and viewers may ask why it's supposed to be better that hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in Harlem were destroyed by black gangsters rather than by Italians. Near the end of the movie, Frank's mother, in the iconic person of Ruby Dee, slaps him across the face, but that moral judgment comes too late, and it isn't prepared for. When is cool no longer cool? In the documentary "Frank Lucas," to be aired on BET's series "American Gangster" on October 31st, you see the real Frank Lucas, now in his late seventies. He is every bit as gifted as you would expect. He's also boastful, cynical, and, as far as we can see, dead to the bottom of the place where his soul should be. ♦ David Denby has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998. 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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should promptly reinspect drug compounding pharmacies that have received warning letters from the agency regarding their manufacturing practices, Public Citizen said today in a letter addressed to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.
Publicly available data reviewed by Public Citizen show that between 2003 and 2012, the FDA sent at least 18 warning letters to 16 pharmacy compounding companies operating in 15 states. The pharmacies listed were headquartered or had facilities inspected by the FDA in one or more of the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah. Addresses and links to FDA warning letters are included in a table enclosed with Public Citizen's letter.
In five of the warning letters, the FDA identified patient injuries or deaths allegedly associated with products produced by the company. In other warning letters, the agency identified manufacturing conditions that posed threats to patients' safety. For each pharmacy listed in these letters, the FDA identified activities that allegedly crossed outside the bounds of traditional compounding and into drug manufacturing, and violated the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act. These alleged violations included:
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The letters identified patient injuries and deaths from infections linked to dextrose injections (sugar water injected through an intravenous line) that had been contaminated with bacteria or other micro-organisms, and from eye infections linked to potentially contaminated Avastin, used to treat macular degeneration. In addition to infections, the letters referenced improperly prepared or labeled drugs. The agency noted at least 70 complaints of adverse events possibly related to incorrect amounts of preservatives added to an injectable steroid, as well as the death of a 25-year-old woman from an anesthetic skin cream after a compounding pharmacy's printed instructions failed to include appropriate warnings to avoid a toxic overdose.
The FDA letters also mentioned other safety threats that had been identified by FDA inspectors, including inadequate sterility practices, poorly cleaned equipment and inappropriately trained staff using poor techniques, such as touching non-sterile items, including trash cans, in between handling sterile drugs. One inspection even revealed that vials of one injectable drug contained a solvent used in wood stains and industrial cleaners.
In recent weeks, Public Citizen has been critical of the FDA's response to the deadly meningitis outbreak that started in September and was traced to contaminated injectable steroid drugs made by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass. The FDA has claimed that the agency lacks authority to properly regulate compounding pharmacies and requires legislative action to do so – a direct contradiction of the content of the agency's warning letters.
"The FDA's warning letters show that the agency doesn't need any additional actions by Congress to enforce the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act against pharmacies that engage in illegal drug manufacturing," said Dr. Michael Carome, deputy director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group. "By not fully investigating what could potentially be deadly violations of the law, the FDA is disregarding its primary purpose, which is to protect the lives of citizens."
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Since its founding in 1909, this male chorus has become the longest continuously performing arts group in New York States Capital District.
The Mendelssohn Club of Albany is composed of men with a variety of occupations and interests who live in the greater Capital District, Hudson Valley, and Berkshires. The club is dedicated to preserving and presenting mens choral music and blends musical experiences with fellowship for members through rehearsals, concerts, and social gatherings.
The Club has performed outside the area in such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, but most of their performances are in the Capital District. They are regularly engaged for the Albany Tulip Festival and sing many benefit concerts, such as the "Voices of Hope" benefit at the Delmar Methodist Church in March 2012.
The Club performs a mix of music: show songs, hymns, spirituals, classical, pop. These pieces come from a wide range of male choral literature from around the world.
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Conductor Jeffrey Vredenburg holds degrees from the Crane School of Music and UAlbany. Postgraduate work has included choral conducting seminars with Donald Neuen, Dale Warland, Robert Page, Gregg Smith, and Margaret Hillis. He retired after 33 years as head of the Saratoga Springs City Schools music department, where he taught music theory and directed three choruses in the high school. His Choraliers received the highest ratings at NYSSMA competitions and national music festivals all along the eastern seaboard and in Canada. Currently he works for the Crane School as a college supervisor for Capital District student-teachers in music.
Pianist Michael Clement was trained at the Eastman School of Music, University of Arizona, and University of Southern California. He has performed concerts throughout the U.S. and has served as music director of Opera Excelsior, vocal coach at the College of Saint Rose, accompanist at Skidmore College, and music director of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Albany.
Spiral Tango - December 1
Spiral Tango is the musical duo of classical guitarist William Simcoe and flutist Elisabeth Williams. Spiral Tango has performed for the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, Monday Musical Club of Albany, Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York, Troy Savings Bank Music at Noon, City of Albany Special Events, and Caffe Lena. Their performances have taken them to venues throughout the Northeast, as well as to Italy where they performed at the Classical Guitar Academy of Milan. Their CD My Dreams of Tango is available on Eroica Classical Recordings (2006).
Ray Andrews is a guitarist who focuses on the 17th century repertoire for the Baroque guitar, giving performances and lectures around the area and at various colleges. He also explores the music of the Andes on the charango, a folk-music relative of the Baroque guitar from that region. He performs this music with Spiral Tango and as a duo with Bill Simcoe.
Nina Fine and Steve Dahlin - November 3
Mezzo-soprano Nina Fine has sung at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, City Center, Symphony Space, The Kimmel Center, The Academy of Music, The Mann Center, The Kennedy Center and The National Cathedral. She has appeared with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Albany Symphony.
Ms. Fine is a featured and ensemble singer with Peter Nero and The Philly Pops. She has been a featured soloist with The Lyra Chamber Ensemble, The Brooks Tegler Big Band, and The Pandemonia Orchestra. She is also an originating member of Boogie Rhythm, a female swing trio performing classics from the WWII era. Ms. Fine has performed her solo cabaret show, Love Bites, at many East Coast venues.
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In the opera world, Mr. Dahlin has sung with the New York Opera Forum, the Seattle Opera Chorus and Vocal Arts Northwest. In local musical theater, he has sung roles in Assassins and HMS Pinafore with the Ghent Playhouse, and in Berlin to Broadway with the Impulse Theater and Dance Company in Palenville.
Mr. Dahlin also sings with St.Pauls Church in Albany, where he has performed solos in Bachs Cantata 21, Haydns Mass in Time of War and The Seasons, and numerous other sacred works.
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Sci Fi Sol (Christina Broussard) got her start as an EDM artist over a decade ago in the New Orleans area as a drum and bass producer and vocalist and has since expanded her sound to encompass multiple genres, including IDM, ambient, and techno, with a dark industrial edge. After moving to Portland by way of New York City, she further developed her live performance and production skills, showcasing them with releases on several record labels including a debut full length on Pleasure Boat Records (Seattle), which has been described by Dave Segal of The Stranger as a "distinctively enchanted sound [that] explores deeply eerie, psychedelic realms." Truly a chameleon of electronica, her remix work has also expressed a broad range of styles including dub, drum and bass, leftfield IDM, and techno. Her DJ sets are known for being driving and eclectic– exploring the outer reaches of techno while still being tailored for the dancefloor.
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How were you introduced to electronic music?
I've always been a singer ever since I was a small child. Through that, as a teenager, I met like minded individuals and we formed a sort of electronic band called The Crackracers. I played the Memory Moog and sang/ screamed thru tons of effects and the fun I had there really got the ball rolling. It inspired me to move forward learning how to use drum machines and eventually the music software that would allow me to begin producing tracks all on my own.
What does your studio setup consist of?
My studio setup consists of, in terms of hardware, a Nord G2 digital modular synth, Native Instruments Maschine, Elektron Octatrack and Roland JX-8P. I use Ableton Live and Logic Pro as my DAWs, and of course a ton of audio units.
Besides Djing and producing electronic music, you are well versed in the visual arts including video and design. How do you feel the two modalities feed each other? Or are they remain separate entities in your creative process?
They definitely feed each other in my world. Music is a translation of feelings, words and images into sound the same way that the moving image is a language that does not necessarily rely on words to communicate a visual idea. They are both universal languages that can make a deep impact on the subconscious. I think this is one of the main reasons why working in these mediums has fascinated me. I have produced a few music videos and plan to explore more ideas there in the future. Although at this point in my career I really have most of my spare time focused on producing music.
Your bio says you have a 'love of the obscure', can you expand on that?
I love the experimental, the unknown, the underground and less accessible. Things that make me see or understand the world from a new perspective are what I am drawn to. I find that many times the best things are hidden and require you to dig deep and go searching for them before they reveal themselves.
If you could collaborate with any other artist who would it be and why?
Hmmm, that's a tough one. There are so many artists that I admire. Gudrun Gut, Kim Gordon, and Dasha Rush, David Lynch, and Fellini are at the top of my list, but someone closer to home would be my super talented partner Carlo / Senor Frio. We collaborate on electronic music and are working on an EP that will be ready sometime next year.
Tell us about your forthcoming EP, Solar Eyes.
It has a theme of timelessness to it, exploring notions of the eyes of the universe that are always on us, watching us to see what we will do next and how our world will evolve, hoping that we move toward a more progressive and equal society. I would call it electronica with heavy breaks, dnb, techno and dub influences, but dark, atmospheric and brooding as seems to be the usual with my work. There is one techno banger on the release that I'm pretty stoked about.
A music video was also produced for one of the songs, check it out here:
Here is a studio mix I did for San Francisco based techno label From 0-1.
This is a live performance of mostly unreleased material, some of which is forthcoming on my latest E.P., Solar Eyes.
It was for the Closer Music Festival held in Portland in June 2013 at Refuge nightclub. It is my original techno and electro production. Check it out!—
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Today Riot released another explosively epic trailer depicting champions duking it out in the fields of League of Legends. As per usual for the game's cinematic trailers, you get to see some of your favorite characters tossing around signature abilities and going toe-to-toe with one another until only one side is left standing. While this trailer actually upped the "violence meter" just a tad by adding blood to a few of the action-sequences, there are a few things that haven't changed.
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The Johnny Manziel Pro Day was apparently quite the spectacle. He hit 61 of 64 passes, all over the field. There were multiple reports that his passes showed great velocity, and the ball was dropping effortlessly in the receiver's hands.
After Manziel's impressive performance, you can almost guarantee Mel Kiper and Todd McShay will have a change of heart in their next set of mock drafts. Moving Blake Bortles out of the top spot and inserting Johnny Manziel in his place.
One thing to keep in mind when looking at these "experts" mock drafts. They never account "stupid" into their selections. They go off a biased format, as to who they would pick, if they they were in charge. Which is fair, but remember that Jerry Jones and Al Davis' bloodline are still in charge of NFL teams. So, maybe it's about time, they took a realistic approach to their mock drafts.
Back to Manziel… Here's what Twitter looked like during his Pro Day:
Jon Gruden: "Steve Young is who I see when I watch Johnny Manziel's tape. Lot of common ground: size, speed, playmaking ability and upside."
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 27, 2014
Impressive workout. What you expect to see from a 1st round QB. RT @TheFFInformer: @MattBowen41 any thoughts on #johnnymanziel #proday?
— Matt Bowen (@MattBowen41) March 27, 2014
#Browns weren't at Johnny Football's Pro Day. I told GM Ray Farmer I do not understand how they approach pro days. He genuinely enjoyed that
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 27, 2014
Johnny Manziel will be a star in the NFL. I can't wait to watch him play!!!!
— Mike Vick (@MikeVick) March 27, 2014
I would agree. RT @greggabe: Analysts are talking Manzi's arm vs Bortles. My take.. Manziel's is good. Bortles is average.
— Brendan Leister (@BrendanLeister) March 27, 2014
Add #Eagles to list of NFL teams to send head coach to Manziel's pro day. Somehow missed him.
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No question @JManziel2 aced Pro Day. He's coachable on fundamentals. Even 6-3 QBs must find passing windows. Can he play 20 games a year?
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35 of 36. Deep ball didn't hit ground but receiver caught it out of bounds.
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Everybody I spoke with said Manziel blew them away.
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I spoke to Bill O'Brien, Rick Smith, Cal McNair, Gus Bradley, Norv Turner, Bill Polian, among others, and they praised heck of Manziel.
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I'm glad Manziel didn't completely crap the bed, like Teddy Bridgewater. These plays were all scripted and he's been working with the receivers on routes for quite sometime. For more thoughts on Manziel's Pro Day see our Podcast below. Texas A&M grad Mac Wolff and I, discuss the Manziel craze in College Station. We get to the Texans around the 30 minute mark or so.
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text: Griffith, Rodney E. Rodney E. Griffith, 55, of Galesburg, died at 11:58 a.m. Wednesday, January 16, 2013 in Methodist Medical Center, Peoria.He was born July 28, 1957 in Loveland, Colo. the son of Prentice and Kathleen Frances Griffith.He is survived by a son, Joshua (and Melissa) Griffith of Macomb, Ill.; a daughter, Amy (and Jeff) Suydam of Cameron, Ill.; friend and mother of his children, Cheryl Woodrow of Galesburg; three grandchildren, Allison and Dylan Griffith and Brandon Suydam; and a sister, Eileen Griffith of Loveland, Colo. He was preceded in death by his parents.Rodney was an independent contractor. He graduated from high school in Colorado and had lived in Galesburg since 1972. He enjoyed fishing, watching football, riverboat casinos, and spending time with his family, children, and grandchildren.Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Galesburg Chapel. Cremation will be accorded following the visitation. Memorials may be made to the family. Online condolences may be made at www.h-p-w.com. by Newsroom News management powered by Xpression News


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Welcome back, Academic Feminists! I am excited to kick off the new year with a fantastic interview as well as announce some great news about the Academic Feminist: Samhita & I were interviewed as part of the American Quarterly journal's special issue on Academia and Activism, edited by Naomi Greyser and Margot Weiss. Check out the interview – and the whole issue, which is amazing!
This month's edition of the Academic Feminist features Dr. Elizabeth R. Johnson. Elizabeth is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she works in the area of biomimicry. Elizabeth discusses how feminism influenced her work, and shows how biomimicry helps us think through new ways of understanding our relationships to animals and the environment, while also highlighting the challenges posed by putting an economic value on life – human and non. You can find out more about her work here.
1) What exactly is biomimicry? And how did you come to be interested in this subject?
"Biomimicry" is the name most often given to the practice of drawing inspiration from natural forms for technological or material production. Biomimetic principles are being increasingly used in robotics, industrial design, material technologies, fashion, and even pharmaceuticals. This termite-mound inspired building in Harare, Zimbabwe offers one example from the field of architecture.
This practice of drawing on nature to create tools for enhancing human life is, of course, nothing new. Humans have long paid attention to the behaviors and structures of nonhumans to improve chances of survival and create innovative ways of engaging with the world. Commonly referenced examples include the Wright brother's bird-inspired airplanes and the famously burr-inspired Velcro®. But, "biomimicry" as a field is new. Over the past several decades, advances in microscopy have provided humans greater access to how biological life forms and material structure function. At the same time, advanced material technologies have given us greater ability to copy biological forms on a micro-scale. This convergence, in part, has given rise to biomimicry as an established framework for approaching engineering design. As the field grows, biomimicry opens up new ways of envisioning and making use of "life". This is where my interests primarily lie.
I am a geographer by training, a fact that at first seems at odds with my interest in biological science and technology. But geographers have long been dedicated to understanding human-environment relations, whether those 'environments' are considered natural or man-made. Increasingly, though, many in the field explore how changing environmental conditions bear on economic and political systems. For example, the emergence of epidemics like avian flu and the advance of climate change have altered how governments regulate the circulation of people and things; the development of biotechnologies and forms of genetic modification has redirected flows of money and power. These changes have significant ramifications for people's relationship to natural resources, locales, border crossings, and everyday life.
Although still a growing field, biomimicry is similarly shifting how we understand, use, and govern nonhuman life as a resource: instead of considering it a limited material to extract–or even source material of any kind–biomimicry values nonhuman life as an inspirational element. This has considerable affects on how and why biological science laboratories receive funding and alters how we put knowledge of biological life to work in the world. With biomimicry, research on lobsters is suddenly of interest to the Department of Defense, termites fascinate architects, 3M is investing in gecko research, this list goes on and on. The proliferation of these connections between biological science and production are important in and of themselves.
My hunch though is that there is something a bit more insidious taking place alongside these transformations: that they reflect and reproduce on going tendencies to revalue life in terms of productivity and profits.
2) How do you see this work intersecting with or drawing from feminism? (Or both!)
My work is heavily influenced by feminist and post-colonial theories of the past few decades that work to question and depose conventional views of the "human" established during the Enlightenment. For centuries, anthropocentric visions of the world codified noted hierarchies of life, reflecting (or legitimizing) hierarchies within human society—typically ones that prioritized the concerns of white European males and place their capacities and desires above those of women and people of color. Second wave feminism and discourses of human rights sought to elevate others to an equally elevated status, often with very positive results. But these movements also ultimately reinforced existing hierarchies by requiring women, people of color, and non-Westerners to conform to the same narrow, universalized view of "the good life" that white men had established.
In response, many scholars have worked to develop an alternative vision of political subjects, arguing that we should dump these traditional conceptions of the human altogether. Indeed, they argue that "we have never been human" in the first place. Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour in particular have worked to challenge our sense of "self" as humans. They want to change how we position ourselves, drawing our attention to how we are neither autonomous actors nor particularly capable of controlling events in the world. Instead, they write of how we are conditioned by and intimately connected to others, both human and non. New human selves will require that we reconstitute notions of responsibility and politics accordingly, disrupting hierarchies within human society, as well as those between humans and nonhuman others.
I am interested in these themes as they connect to the practice of biomimicry. On the surface, biomimetic science seems to invert the hierarchy between humans and nonhumans. Through attempts to harness the capacities of nonhuman life, scientists and engineers express recognition that other life forms "know" how to live in the world better than we do. Through evolution, animal bodies have been incredibly innovative; they are capable of a host of techniques of which humans have long dreamed. Flying like a bird was only the beginning. We also would like to stick like geckos, harvest water like the Namib Desert beetle, and clean surfaces like a lotus leaf.
According to advocates of biomimicry like Janine Benyus (the "guru" of the environmental arm of biomimicry movement) this process forces us to confront the shared genius of the world and collaborate with it. It presumably calls on us to question how we have positioned ourselves as exceptional and autonomous beings in the world. For Benyus and others, biomimicry promises to depose concepts of liberal humanism in practice, by engineering with nonhuman others.
I like to think that Benyus gets this part right: biomimicry promises to restructure our relationship with the environment and ourselves. And that is a very exciting prospect. But, I also know that challenging sedimented conventions are seldom so simple. And, as I mentioned earlier, biomimetic practices have been employed for a wide range of purposes and many of its practitioners have no interest or incentive to trouble social and environmental hierarchies. So, while many of biomimicry's successes support claims that the field will facilitate a more ecologically sustainable future, a detailed look at the field reveals that many laud it as a way of making ecological sustainability commensurate with economic success.
While this seems like a good way to generate more ecologically sound production practices, it also threatens to reduce the value "life" in economic terms. This carries considerable risks as the value of "life" becomes conditioned upon its ability to generate economically viable commodities. Accordingly, while biomimicry may increase efficiency, productivity, and ecological sustainability, it may simultaneously limit debates over what forms of life ought to be valued in our society and why. In other words, rather than elevating nonhuman life to a position worthy of respect and consideration in our society, biomimetic practices might instead result in its reduction to a purely commodified form.
3) One of the examples of biomimicry that you examine in your dissertation is the RoboBees project. Briefly explain this project for those who – like me! – find it fascinating but had no idea that it existed, or that government organizations were funding this type of research.
In 2008, the National Science Foundation began this National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing Program, which was designed to fund incredibly ambitious, interdisciplinary projects that promise to advance computer hardware and software. It's the "crown jewel" of funding for the computer sciences and it has enabled some fairly stunning project proposals to get off the ground. In 2009, a group of computer and robotics engineers joined forces to submit a proposal to create a colony of robotic bees that—they proposed—would be capable of agricultural pollination should Colony Collapse Disorder wipe out real bees. It's a really fascinating project that drew together scientists from the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, material science, applied mathematics, biology, and education, only one of whom considered himself a "biomimeticist".
The RoboBee project is actually a terrific example of the problem above that I outlined. Biomimicry appeared at the heart of the project: the researchers meant to both harness bee-abilities and to recreate bees in a robotic form. But I never found any indication that their engagement with bees or biomimicry might engender questions about the superiority of human engineering or a greater respect for bees. In fact, I found the opposite: simply imagining that actual bees could be replaced by robotic ones diverts attention from the ecological and largely anthropogenic problems that were causing bee colonies to disappear in the first place. For them, "nature-inspired research" was purely instrumental.
4) Your most recent work is on how scientific production in the university setting is changing right now. Would you outline some of your main observations here?
There have been troubling trends taking place in higher education over the past few decades. The dramatic defunding of public higher education and rapidly increasing tuition and fee rates for students are just the tip of the iceberg. As with the rest of the country, we are also witnessing a weird redistribution of funding in higher education: scarcity in some sectors parallels highly visible surpluses in others. For example, universities across the country have scaled back their professoriate and the administrative staff. Since 2008, wages have stagnated, lines terminated, administrative positions merged, etc, forcing an increasing reliance on temp workers and adjunct teaching staff who are paid very low wages and have neither job security or benefits. At the same time, universities have supported an increasingly bloated bureaucratic class and high rates of investment in capital infrastructure projects and sports teams.
Those in the Humanities and Social Science disciplines have felt this in the form of budget cuts, a shrinking pool of jobs, heightened competition upon graduation, and a widespread anxiety. In science and engineering programs, it has meant this too, perhaps in a lesser degree. But, combined in part with the 1980 passage of the Bayh-Dole Act (or the Patent and Trademark Amendments Act), which regulates and encourages the administration of patents from university-produced research, reductions in state funding have produced something much different in the sciences: the rise of an "entrepreneurial" mentality.
With declines in state funding, universities have withdrawn support for the material infrastructure necessary to produce innovative scientific research. Scientists have long needed to secure external funding to outfit their laboratories. But this is now increasingly the case. As a result, professors in the sciences have largely become managers of research projects, with much of their time dedicated to writing grants while their graduate students and post-docs carry out the actual research. This means that they continually need their work to appeal to broad audiences, either governmental or corporate. And, accordingly, scientific research has increasingly come increasingly in line with production.
Many think this is a good thing; it seems to make science more accountable to social production and erode the boundaries around the so-called "ivory tower" of academia. However, when I look at the kinds of projects that scientists around the country are pursuing, I see incredible constraints. Rather than producing scientific research for any kind of democratically driven "social good," most projects are driven by either US military interests—funded by various branches of the DoD—or corporate ones. And the scientists who fail to appeal to these means are often marginalized. This isn't to say that the science funded by the DoD is inherently "bad." Indeed, as Donna Haraway has noted, the progeny of military projects are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins (drone technologies, for example, are now being repurposed for tracking and better managing wildlife). Regardless, there is much too little attention paid to the kinds of scientific and technological work that we produce.
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In addition to the above linked materials, below you can find more information on the topics discussed here. Add additional links in comments and, as always, please send suggestions for future Academic Feminist interviewees here.
- Donna Haraway When Species Meet
- Melinda Cooper Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era
- Nicole Shukin Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
- Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life
- Kaushik Sunder-Rajan Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
For those wanting to read up on issues in higher education, the website Class War University offers a great resource of interviews with activists and scholars working on university issues around the world.


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Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International renewed a call to Israel on Wednesday to allow the groups access to Gaza via the Israeli-controlled border, saying in a joint press release that the resumption of fighting makes it more important than ever for their investigators to monitor the situation.
"The Israeli authorities appear to have been playing bureaucratic games with us over access to Gaza, conditioning it on entirely unreasonable criteria even as the death toll mounts," Anne FitzGerald, Amnesty International's director of Research and Crisis Response, said in the release.
At least 2,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on July 7. More than 10,000 Gazans have been injured and half a million internally displaced. On the Israeli side, 64 soldiers have died in combat and three civilians have been killed by rocket attacks on Israeli cities. Both sides have been accused of violating the laws of war during the most deadly conflict between Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip since Hamas took power in 2007.


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American pop culture is turning Japanese. Every day, millions of kids spend hours watching anime on Cartoon Network and reading telephone book-sized comics called manga. From "Spirited Away" to Shonen Jump, if the label says "Made in Japan" it's considered cool. But what if you want to enjoy anime and manga in its original language? Written Japanese consists of three scripts: the phonetic hiragana and katakana syllabaries, each comprised of 46 characters (collectively known as kana); and kanji, a complex set of characters based on Chinese ideographs. Hiragana and katakana are the true "ABCs of Japanese," as they can be used to write complete sentences. Children in Japan learn to read and write hiragana and katakana long before they are introduced to kanji. Most manga targeted toward the youngest readers in Japan are also written completely in kana. "Kana de Manga" makes learning kana easy and fun for students who already enjoy Japanese comics. Each page has a humorous manga illustration representing a word that begins with the hiragana or katakana character featured prominently at the top. A brief explanation accompanies each drawing; the English equivalent of the word is given; and there is a work area where students can practice writing the characters. Is the anime-and-manga boom just a fad? Perhaps. But if it inspires young people to want to learn about the Japanese language and culture, then it is a fad educators and students alike should embrace.
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One of the simplest pleasures of Santa Barbara is its proximity to the ocean. With miles of sandy coastline, and over 300+ days of sunshine to enjoy, you'll have trouble picking which of our pristine beaches to visit first. From surfer dude waves to a gentle ocean, Santa Barbara beaches have something to offer everyone.
When you're ready to hit the beach, here are some of our favorites with a few insider tips:
1. Arroyo Burro Beach
Insider Tip: Known as Henry's Beach to locals, Arroyo Burro Beach is a flat, dog-friendly spot. There's even a dog-washing station in the parking lot!
2. Butterfly Beach
Insider Tip: Located in Montecito, Butterfly Beach faces west, making it a great place to watch the sunset.
3. East Beach
Insider Tip: Bring the family and head to East Beach, next to Stearns Wharf. East Beach makes your stay a breeze with lifeguard stations, playground, cafe, and volleyball courts.
4. Goleta Beach Park
Insider Tip: This good land beach is for those who like to be active during their beach time. Goleta Beach Park is complete with a fishing pier, playgrounds, picnic and grill areas, bike trails, volleyball courts and horseshoe pits.
5. Ledbetter Beach
Insider Tip: Near the harbor, where the coastline wraps around the beach. Because the coastline trends east to west, you can watch both the sunrise and sunset here.
6. Summerland Beach
Insider Tip: Looking for a relaxing time? Summerland beach is a low-key spot that's not only dog friendly, but horse friendly too.
Which of these Santa Barbara beaches is your favorite?
As a lover of Santa Barbara and even bigger lover of Santa Barbara wine, I'm happy to announce and cheers to Santa Barbara's newest wine tasting neighborhood, the Wine Collection of El Paseo. Located in the heart of fine dining and high-end shopping on State Street, these 6 ultra-premium wine tasting rooms are the perfect pairing for an afternoon (or two!) of wining, dinning and shopping.
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But what sets this new tasting neighborhood apart from others in the area? The new Wine Collection of El Paseo features small-production, boutique wineries that produce ultra-premium wines sourced from local Santa Barbara County vineyards. In addition to tasting great wines, while you sip and swirl, you'll be able to earn how these wines are locally crafted and about the terroir of where the grapes are grown in Santa Barbara County. It's truly a grape to glass experience!
Tasting rooms of the Wine Collection of El Paseo includes Au Bon Climat Winery, Grassini Family Vineyards, Happy Canyon Vineyard, Jamie Slone Wines, Margerum Wine Company and MWC32.
Spend the afternoon in Downtown Santa Barbara and taste for yourself! All tasting rooms are open daily from 12-6 pm. Keep in mind the final tastings of the day begin no later than 5:30 pm.
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Have you ever taken a look at the purple and prickly shell of the sea urchin and thought, how am I supposed to eat that? Believe us, it's not as hard as it may appear, and the results are too delicious not to try. In Santa Barbara, sea urchin is our specialty, and we're here to show you how to crack and enjoy this local delicacy in 4 easy steps.
In honor of epicure.sb, a 31-day celebration of cuisine, libations and culture during the month of October, Stephanie Mutz, President of Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara is here to guide you and provide the inside scoop. Here we go:
Step 1: Open the urchin by turning it upside down with mouth facing up. Hold two spoons back to back and squeeze together.
There's a new craze that's sweeping Santa Barbara and it's calling on the mind and body. That's right, yoga in Santa Barbara is stretching its reach and balancing itself within our coastal lifestyle.
Yoga has been around for centuries, but what makes the Santa Barbara yogi so unique? Our ocean to mountain sunshine allows for this meditative practice to be taken outside of the studio and into the wild. Bring a whole new meaning to mountain pose while you're surrounded by giant boulders and breathtaking views. Or, perhaps boat pose on the sand at your favorite Santa Barbara beach. Wherever you choose, this healthy activity will leave you feeling centered in your Santa Barbara surroundings.
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As part of epicure.sb, a 31-day celebration of Santa Barbara's cuisine, libation and culture, we'll also be celebrating yoga in Santa Barbara with the First Annual Health and Wellness Yoga Series. This October event series will feature a unique array of Santa Barbara's top Yoga teachers and premiere locations. Each of the events is designed include an hour long yoga class followed by a reception.
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The purpose of this series is to create a truly uplifting experience that highlights the unique lifestyle of Santa Barbara. With that said, grab your yoga mat and join us for one of these unique events!
Romantic and whimsical, the Santa Barbara South Coast is home to some of the most beautiful weddings a bride and groom could wish for. Breathtaking landscapes, a Mediterranean climate year round that makes wedding planning a breeze, and sunsets that will make your heart skip a beat. These are just some of the contributions to the beauty of a Santa Barbara wedding. However, the real reason of their beauty is within the love that is shared and expressed, time and time again.
One way to express your wedding love is through the traditional father and daughter dance. There is nothing quite like it, or as special. Since Santa Barbara is home to countless weddings each year, we've reached out to one of our wedding experts, DJ Scott Topper, and he's provided us with a list of the top 10 most requested songs for this beloved father and daughter dance in SB.
Think we missed a song? Tell us in the comments below!
And remember, you can always listen to the sounds of the Santa Barbara South Coast on our SB Pandora Station!
This Labor Day Weekend, take a relaxing vacation in the Santa Barbara South Coast. The reason? Because you deserve it! Treat yourself and your loved ones for an extended weekend of fun, in the Santa Barbara sun. As summer slowly comes to an end, we guarantee you'll create enough memories to last through the winter season.
In fact, thanks to our Instagram followers, here is 90 seconds of inspiration of what your SB weekend can look like:
For a perfect Santa Barbara pairing, nothing goes better with your morning beach walk than a Santa Barbara sunrise.
In Santa Barbara, happiness is a dog at the beach. Trust us, man's best friend will love SB just as much as you do!
Surfing is a lifestyle we gladly accept, especially on a sunny summer afternoon.
During your stay in the Santa Barbara South Coast, you'll feel on top of the world.
Stand up paddleboarding should be on everyone's summer to do list!
Take in a moment from one of our many breathtaking viewpoints.
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Don't miss the piping hot premiere of Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race, where food truck contenders will gather together in the culinary community of Santa Barbara to kick off an all new season.
Tune in on Sunday August 17th at 9|8c, as host Tyler Florence introduces eight brand-new food truck teams, all rookies to the food truck scene. They'll start their journey in Santa Barbara with fresh concepts, entrepreneurial spirits and chance to win their own food truck business and $5,000 in seed money.
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For additional information and a sneak peek of the new season, please visit FoodNetwork.com/FoodTrucks
After you've watched the episode, make you way to the Santa Barbara South Coast to taste your way through our plentiful palate of flavors. Dine in one of our 300+ restaurants, sip on delectable Santa Barbara County wines, or re-enact the episode and eat on your feet with one of our local Santa Barbara food trucks.
There's only one thing in this world that's better than a summer in the Santa Barbara South Coast, and that's finding the perfect playlist to pair with your vacation in Santa Barbara! The sounds of a SB summer can be found in the rhythm of our ocean shores, in our laid back attitudes, and through the pulsing sounds of our unforgettable summer celebrations. Whatever your musical taste, you're guaranteed to fall in love with the sounds of a SB summer. If you need a little SB inspiration, here a few tracks we'd gladly put on replay:
You can do more than listen to the sounds of the Santa Barbara South Coast, but become musically inspired by them as well! Artists such as David Crosby, Jeff Bridges, Brian Wilson, Glen Phillips and so many more have used their Santa Barbara surrounding to inspire classic hits.
If you're left wanting to hear more, you can listen to the Santa Barbara South Coast all day long with Visit Santa Barbara's custom Pandora Station. Get ready to be transported to a Santa Barbara paradise!
In the Santa Barbara South Coast, fine dining isn't limited to reservations and a single location. We've taken the dining experience to the streets, where you can discover multitudes of signature Santa Barbra tastes, treats and eats, all while on your feet.
Begin with one of our foodie friendly walking tours:
Savor Santa Barbara Food Tours: This guided 3 1/2 hour walking tasting tour emphasizing in local foods, flavors and fun. By the end, you'll have eaten and been drinking like a local! Combining some of the oldest and newest eateries with local history, culture and architecture, you'll experience seven distinct tastings of food, beer and wine while strolling off-the-beaten path
Eat this, Shoot That!: Touring with a twist! This 2.5 hour walking tour takes guests to various eateries and tasting rooms for 8 different tastings, all the while learning how to take better travel photos as you explore our fabulous city! This tour is great for all palates and photo novices of every skill level, even the iPhone photographer.
Taste Santa Barbara Food Tours:Not quite sure where or what to eat? Considered the "progressive lunch", this 3.5 tour is a fantastic way to try different foods in some of the best eateries and watering holes in Downtown Santa Barbara. In addition, you'll learn about Santa Barbara culture, architecture and a little history. The tour is great fit for all!
Next up is food trucks:
The Burger Bus: One phrase can describe your experience while indulging in The Burger Bus, "simple yet sublime". Made with the best ingredients possible, all burgers and sides are made from local produce and ingredients. While sticking with traditional burger fixings, The Burger Bus also branches out to explore new flavors, creating burgers such as CB&JTM, a burger patty covered in melted cheese, grilled onions and seasonal Mama's Preserves jelly on toasted ciabatta. In addition, did we mention that their menu includes deep fried pickles, called pickle chips? Simply amazing.
Georgia's Smokehouse: Making daily lunch and dinner stops, Georgia's Smokehouse is the place for a southern helping of comfort food. Specializing in Southern Smokehouse BBQ, the pulled pork sandwich is a must get when visiting this truck. When picking out sides, we recommend the Bacon & Cheddar Hush Puppies, which are out of this world.
Sugar and Salt Creamery: If you're looking for a sweet treat while on your feet, start walking to the Sugar and Salt Creamery. You'll immediately send your taste buds into a sweet dream after tasting their sorbet made from raw sprouted almond milk.
Don't forget about the beverages!
All within walking distance to each other, Santa Barbara's Urban Wine Trail and The Funk Zone are great locations to sip and savor wine, beer and signature cocktails from one location to the next. Just remember, with all drinking, please do so responsibly.
We all know the struggle of deciding where you're going to take the next summer vacation. With travel bucket lists that are miles long, it's hard to settle on just one location. Luckily for you, the Santa Barbara South Coast the shining star on any travel wish list. While it's true that this majestic destination is great for visiting all year round, summer is definitely no exception, and we're here to provide 5 reasons why the Santa Barbara South Coast wins as a summer vacation hot spot.
1: Like any other sunny destination, the Santa Barbara South Coast provides 300+ days of sunshine a year. But what makes our sunshine even better? Our Mediterranean climate provides remarkably consistent daytime temperatures ranging from the mid-60s to the mid-70s, usually accompanied by low humidity and a gentle ocean breeze. Expect to remain refreshingly cool during those summer nights. What does that mean for you? Pack light and schedule plenty of time to explore the mountains, the sea, and everything in between.
2: In the Santa Barbara South Coast, we know how to celebrate. Specializing in festivals, summertime is packed with parades, celebrations, and plenty of family fun for all ages. In the summer months alone, there are 5+ annual celebrations that are accompanied by countless supporting events and activities. On any given weekend during the summer months, there is sure to be a festival celebrating Santa Barbara's rich heritage. So bring the confetti and get ready to fiesta!
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3: As already stated above, summertime in Santa Barbara is great for being outside and relaxing in the breathtaking surroundings. Another way you can take in the great outdoors and satisfy your culinary cravings is to eat on your feet! What is that, you may ask? In the Santa Barbara South Coast, we're equipped with culinary tours, food trucks and plentiful outdoor patios for you to enjoy your eats and still be active on the Santa Barbara streets!
4: If relaxing in the summer sun and taking a sip of a refreshing libation sounds like a good time, you'll most definitely want to make your way to the Santa Barbara South Coast. Lovers of wine can uncork their way through the Urban Wine Trail or head to the Santa Ynez Valley for an afternoon of great wines and good times. More a beer lover? We've got 8 unique microbreweries to quench your thirst. Or if you're looking for spirits, Santa Barbara's Funk Zone includes hand crafted cocktails, made farm fresh and there's even a vodka distillery on location.
5: Family meets fun in the Santa Barbara South Coast. Kids of all ages are delighted to run, see, play, and do while on their stay. Full your days with 60+ kid and parent approved activities. Think educational mornings at the museum and active afternoons in our outdoor splendor. Parents can't go wrong with a family vacation to our sandy shoreline.
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Bruce and Selina's first post-Crisis meeting as civilians. This meeting has been retconned however, due to the Long Halloween series being canon. Selina Kyle remains perfect regardless. [Batman #503]
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Alfred: While Master Bruce is a very complicated man, he is also a special one at that. So, to answer your question, no. I do not think you are wasting your time.
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"Untitled (0474.40)" (Not dated) found paper and soot by James Castle Courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco Ran on: 03-24-2007 &quo;Untitled (0474.40),&quo; a work on found paper and soot, by the late James Castle. Photo: Courtesy Of Gallery Paule Anglim
Writers on the arts have frequently suggested that inner isolation defines the modern urban condition and that the artist who can overcome it expressively speaks for everyone.
But forget about squaring this mythic view with the work and life of Idahoan James Castle (1900-1977).
Born deaf in thinly populated farm country, Castle never learned to sign, speak or write anything more than his name. Yet he left a tremendous output of artwork, which began to receive national recognition during the late '60s. The Boise Art Museum owns a large cache of his work.
Gallery Paule Anglim has a generous selection of Castle's drawings and assemblages on view.
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Caroline Kennedy, 888 Park Ave.
By Steve Brawley
Like her mother, Caroline keeps a fairly low private profile (other than her tip toe into politics for the NY senate seat). She has quietly raised her family at 888 Park Avenue with her husband Ed
Schlossberg. The building's awing is very similar to her mother's former 1040 Fifth Ave. building. 888 is also just down the street from 740 Park Ave., where Jackie lived as a child.
Her six-room apartment is at an exclusive
address on Park Avenue where a larger unit was recently listed for $13 million.
Friends describe it as a low-key place covered with books and decorated with
slip-covered sofas.
Kennedy and her husband, enjoy entertaining, frequently hosting buffet-style
gatherings. Sometimes, he cooks.
Back in
2000, 888 Park's board voted to not to allow Bradley J. Wechsler, 49,
co-chairman and co–chief executive of Imax Corporation, and his wife, Patti
Newberger, into the building. They had gone into contract on a $13 million
apartment and they had very powerful friends plus plenty of money in the bank.
One report claimed that, "They were impeccable candidates." No justification for
the rejection was made
Now that is a tough co-op board.
This large and very handsome apartment building
was erected in 1926 and converted to a cooperative in 1953. The richly
decorated, red-brick facade with rope quoins and an interesting cornice is one
of the most attractive on the Avenue. The building has a two-story limestone
base and a very deep and impressive lobby. As of 1992 it had 48
It was designed by Schwartz & Gross, whose other buildings on
the Park Avenue include 470, 525, 885, 910, 911, 930, 941, 970, 983, 1045, 1070,
1095, 1125 and 1165.
Rose and Tatiana Schlossberg in 888 Park Ave. (Source needed)
Caroline Kennedy, 888 Park Avenue
Caroline and her son Jack leave 888 for memorial services on 7-29-99 for her brother John Jr.
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