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Interview With The Vampire Starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Stephen Rea, Directed By Neil Jordan When it was first published, Anne Rice's seductive and hypnotic Interview With the Vampire swept away the cobwebs that had long enshrouded vampire lore: Her creatures of the night weren't creaky old ghouls shrinking at the sight of silver crucifixes but late-18th-century romantic rebels drunk on immortality. Hollywood quickly grabbed the movie rights-then spent 18 years trying to figure out what to do with them. * Producers like Julia Phillips (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), directors like John Boorman (Deliverance), writers like Frank DeFelitta (Audrey Rose) and Michael Cristofer (The Witches of Eastwick), and stars from John Travolta to Jon Voight to Cher all bloodied themselves on the project. ''People had tried to treat it as a metaphor for one thing or another-drug addiction or AIDS,'' says writer-director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), who finally broke the curse for producer David Geffen. ''But you didn't have to make it allegorical. What's unique about the book is that it's told from the monster's point of view. Not even Bram Stoker's Dracula was told (by) Dracula.'' * Jordan felt that the roles of Louis, the heartsick plantation owner, and Lestat, the mesmerizing aesthete who converts him to vampirism, ''had to be played by the best young Hollywood actors. That's what (vampires) are, with their glamour, indestructability, and eternal youth.'' But while Rice's fans applauded the choice of Pitt to play Louis, the author howled when good-guy Cruise was cast as the Byronic six-footer Lestat. ''I wanted a great actor of appropriate voice and height,'' said Rice, who had once advocated Rutger Hauer. Counters Jordan: ''The popular image of Tom has very little to do with what he actually is. There's a savagery to Tom that's never been on the screen before.'' Shooting last fall in New Orleans, the $50 million production fought to keep a low profile (though bootleg footage made its way onto Hard Copy). ''We were in our own little bubble, as if we were fighting in Vietnam,'' laughs Jordan. ''It forced us to concentrate on the whole dark world of these vampires Anne had created.'' And his colleagues claim that nobody concentrated harder than Cruise. ''When I went to New Orleans, I didn't see that he was under any kind of pressure,'' says Banderas (Philadelphia), who plays Armand, the ancient but $ beautiful vampire who wrestles with Lestat for control of Louis. ''Maybe he had it inside his stomach, but he wasn't putting it out. Tom wants to be perfect all the time.'' (Nov. 18) *What's at stake: For Jordan, a second shot at becoming a Hollywood heavy hitter. For Cruise, a chance to drive a spike through the heart of anyone who thinks his acting lacks bite.
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APA's 113th Annual Convention, slated for Aug. 18-21, in Washington, D.C., will include student-focused programming, networking opportunities and talks by the field's top psychologists. Keep an eye on the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) convention Web site for updates on programming and registration. And look for the APAGS program in the July/August Monitor on Psychology.
In the meantime, it's not too early to start making plans to attend. Here are some student opportunities in the works.
Get the lay of the convention land at the orientation session, "Making the Most Out of APA Convention," designed to familiarize first-time convention attendees with the convention's wide array of symposia, poster sessions, workshops, networking events, social hours and informal gatherings. Presenters will provide information and suggestions about division and suite programming, outline programming for students of diverse backgrounds, and discuss how and where to network.
Meet an eminent female psychologist at the APAGS event, "Women Supporting Women: Mentoring Between APAGS and Eminent Psychologists." The program will include discussions about what women want out of mentoring relationships. The program will conclude with a women's mentoring hour designed to connect graduate students with seasoned psychologists willing to network and provide mentoring.
Have a bagel with some of psychology's leaders at one of the four APAGS-sponsored "Food for Thought" breakfasts, where students can meet and network with eminent psychologists. The breakfasts will be held at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For more information, including the psychologists who will attend the breakfasts, visit the APAGS Web site.
Explain the importance of psychology to your representatives on Capitol Hill during a two-day, pre-convention advocacy training workshop co-sponsored by APAGS and APA's Public Policy Office. Participants will spend the first day learning about the legislative process, as well as preparing for a visit to one of their home state's senator's offices on the second day. A small stipend may be available to students. For more information, see APA PPO or e-mail APA legislative assistant Amanda Ring.
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...And more often than people think. Just days after the President offered up more of our coasts to the oil industry, an oil pipeline operated by Chevron Pipe Line Co leaked at least 18,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
This is another example of how dangerous exposure to an oil spill can potentially be to coastal wildlife and habitat, in a national wildlife refuge no less. Spills happen at every stage of oil production. Whether it is from drilling, pipelines, tankers, or refineries; a spill can occur at every stage of the oil production process. Then when we burn the oil, it contributes to climate change.
Big Oil would have us believe that spills are a thing of the past thanks to modern technology. Unfortunately, the facts play out otherwise. Oil spills are not rare occurrence. Almost one million gallons of oil enter the oceans of North America every year through extraction activities alone.
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This is Australia's third recent major disaster, following the massive oil spill off Queensland and the Timor Sea oil platform blowout. Oil is extremely toxic to marine life and the damage to habitat can persist for years, even decades after a spill.
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Timbers' last-minute goal spoils Sounders' celebration
Rodney Wallace scored in the 90th minute to give Portland a 1-1 tie in Seattle and keep the Sounders winless in MLS play.
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Cascadia historyEach team in the annual competition that started in 2004 has won the Cascadia Cup three times.
Sounders: 2006, 2007, 2011
Portland: 2009, 2010, 2012
Vancouver: 2004, 2005, 2008
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An amazing week was nearly flawless — until the last minute.
The past several days for Sounders FC included the acquisition of a star forward and the history-making elimination of Tigres UANL in the CONCACAF Champions League. But on Saturday, Seattle allowed a late equalizer to rival Portland and had to settle for a 1-1 tie at CenturyLink Field.
The Sounders, who debuted new designated player Obafemi Martins in the second half, are still without an MLS win this season at 0-1-1 and haven't recorded a shutout in four games overall, including CCL.
Portland (0-1-2) deflated the crowd of 40,150 when second-half substitute Rodney Wallace headed in a cross from defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste in stoppage time, three minutes before the final whistle.
"It hurts," said Sounders FC midfielder Steve Zakuani. "It'd have been a much better feeling waking up with three points. When you fight that hard and run that much ... you want to close it out."
Goalkeeper Michael Gspurning gave some credit, though, to the new-look Timbers under first-year coach Caleb Porter. "To be honest ... Portland is a way better team than last year," he said.
The Sounders took a 1-0 lead in the 13th minute when Zakuani intercepted a Timbers pass and raced down the left flank. Upon reaching the penalty box, he curled a beautiful pass in front of the net to forward Eddie Johnson for the tap-in goal.
"I faked like I was going in and Steve put it to the back post and I was wide open," Johnson said. "It was one of those goals where we have the relationship and understand how each other plays."
Johnson, who scored the series winner in Tuesday's CCL action, has five goals and an assist in seven games against Cascadia Cup rivals Portland and Vancouver. He has three goals in four games against the Timbers.
The early goal appeared to be a good omen for the Sounders, who own the league's longest active unbeaten streak when scoring first at 25-0-7, a run that dates to the end of the 2010 season.
It wasn't exactly.
Sounders coach Sigi Schmid said the Sounders let the visitors back into the game.
"I think our play was a little bit too slow; our movement to the ball was too slow," he said. "It seemed like they were pressing and were more ambitious in terms of winning 50-50 balls than we were, and that certainly turned the tide of the game."
Portland, which held a 13-7 shot advantage, earned many of its chances through midfielder Diego Valeri. The team's new designated player had a pair of shots in the 34th and 41st minutes — the first on a free kick, the second from open play — but each missed high.
Valeri nearly tied the score again in the second half, but a 49th-minute free kick from 25 yards clanged off the corner of the goal frame. The equalizer would come later.
"As a whole, we could have walked away tonight winning 1-0," Schmid said, "even though it wasn't a good performance."
Seattle holds a 41-28-11 edge in a rivalry that dates to 1975 in the North American Soccer League. The Sounders are 4-1-6 in Cascadia Cup games since Portland and Vancouver joined MLS in 2011.
"We've only got one point so far, but ... nobody here is panicking," Zakuani said. "We just have to figure out what's going wrong and how to get ourselves really going."
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The F50 is many tools in one. A scanner, a web-video-digital camera, lined-graph-plain paper and with "best-in-class image clarity," you can see clearly with every single action.
Megapixels. Mega images. Mega wows.
Learning becomes wonderment when it's unfolding on the big screen and nothing puts on a show like the 5 megapixels of the F50 doc cam that's primed to show crisp text, bright images and vivid colors. The F50 is also engineered with a large imaging sensor to collect lots of light. More megapixels and more light mean better resolution and gorgeous detail for showcasing your classroom's best.
Zoom into it.
Really get down to the nitty-gritty details of your experiment, math problem or poem. With 80x zoom, you can zero in on the smallest details and clearly see the big picture. So that tiny 1/8 or 1/16 of an inch on a ruler can be clearly seen by the student in the back of the class. A bonus is that when you are in digital zoom, you can move around the image while you are still zoomed in.
See micro worlds in action.
With the F50's optional microscope adaptor,
you can explore nature's tiniest communities in action. Simply fit the adaptor to any standard microscope eye-piece and you can now display small worlds on big screens.
If only everything was 30fps smooth.
We'll admit it. We suffer a little from attention deficit, so we made sure that the F50 shows only 30fps video. That means it displays only smooth movement and images without any bumps, lags or freezes. Even math demonstrations are more captivating.
Shed some light.
Usually when the projector is on, the lights are off. Since the F50 is connected to a projector, it has built-in LED lights in the camera head to illuminate and display the objects underneath beautifully.
Make a point.
Need to explain a tricky concept or emphasize a key point? By simply plugging in an USB mouse into the F50, you can easily add annotations, highlights, arrows and captions. You don't need a computer. Easy peasy.
It's doubles as a scanner, web camera, video camera, digital camera…
Use the F50 to snap a quick picture and store it on the camera itself, a USB flash drive or a con nected computer. You never again need to scan in student work. You can also use the F50 as a video camera by rotating the neck and recording student presentations, class projects or white board images. And if you are a Skype power-user, the F50 as a webcam, shows your face, your students faces, a project, classroom wall… (you get the point).
Do the twist.
Go ahead – lean, bend and flex the F50's gooseneck in any and every direction to get up close and personal from an iPad, Petri dish, your students, your class and more. It won't break.
Move it.
If you have to share your document camera with other teachers, you are in luck. The
F50 document camera is the perfect mobile teaching buddy that is light, compact (folds into itself), as well as sets up quickly
and easily.
Remote in.
We know teaching doesn't happen in just the front of the class, so we included a remote. Now you can move around while still controlling the F50. You can even pass the remote to students and allow them to take the F50 for a spin.
Sphere2 Lesson Presentation Software.
With Sphere2 it's all about the split screen- and share-ability. Feel free to split…the screen that is. Project a live F50 image, a live web cam image, and saved images /videos side by side. Why? Show exam questions next to sample answers. How to videos next to end results. The difference between an iceberg and a glacier is simple when seen. All the while, annotate, highlight and record the presentation and when finished, Sphere2 will upload to many social media sites – YouTube, Dropbox – to share with colleagues, students and more.
Interactive White Board or Tablet Plug-in.
With the plug-in, AVer's F50 directly integrates into any IWB software to easily add pictures and live video. You can even use the IWB or tablet software to control the F50. That's the power of AVer integration.
Microsoft application plug-in.
Place an AVer doc cam live image directly onto PowerPoint slides. You can even annotate over the entire slide (including the live doc cam image) as well as record the entire presentation.
F50 Technical Specifications
|Pixel Count
|5 megapixels
|Effective Pixel
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|Frame Rate
|30 fps (max.)
|White Balance
|Auto / Manual
|Auto / Manual
|Image Mode
|Sharp / Graphics / Motion / Microscope / Macro / Infinite
|Color / B/W / Negative / Mirror / Rotate / Freeze
|RGB Output
|1920x1080, 1280x720, 1024x768
|DVI-I Output
(Please note our DVI output may not be compatible with all HDMI displays using a dvi-hdmi cable due to different signaling intakes)
|HD 1080p 148.5MHz 50Hz/60Hz; HD 720p 50Hz/60Hz; 1024x768 60Hz;
|Composite Output
|720x480 (NTSC)
|Auto / Manual
|Shooting Area
|Max. 15.75" x 11.8" (400mm x 300mm)
|8X Optical + 10X Digital Zoom (Total = 80X)
|Image Effect
|Color / B&W / Negative / Mirror / Reverse / Freeze
|White balance/exposure/night view
|Auto / Manual
|Split Screen
|Presentation Tools
|Spotlight (Yes), Visor (Yes)
|Capture Mode
|Single / Continuous
|Remote Control
|Image Storage
|240 Frames(XGA) ; 80 Frames(5M Pixel)
|Onboard AV Recording
|Yes, SD/SDHC/USB
|Onboard Annotation
|Yes, works with any HID device (eg. Mouse, AP20T Interactive Pen)
|Operating Systems
|Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows Vista (32/64 bit), Windows 7 (32/64 bit)
Mac OS X 10.5.8 or above (Intel based)
|AVer Software
|AVer A+ Software Suite (Sphere 2, PowerPoint Plug-in, Flash-Plug-in), A+ 1.7, AVerVision 4
|Interactive Whiteboard Compatibility
|Yes with AVerVision Flash Plug-in
|MS PowerPoint
|Yes with PowerPoint Plug-in (Windows only, MS PPT 2007 or above)
|Power Source
|DC 12V, 2A, 100-240V, 50-60Hz
|16.8 Watts (lamp off); 18 Watts (lamp on)
|Lamp Type
|LED light
Input/Output Connections
|RGB Input
|15-Pins D-sub (VGA)
|RGB Output
|15-Pins D-sub (VGA)
|DVI-I Output
|DVI-I Type
|Mini-DIN Jack (use CVBS/RS-232 Adapter cable)
|Composite Video
|RCA Jack
|Mini-USB (Connect to PC)
Type-A (Connect to USB Flash Drive, AP20 Interactive Pen)
|SD/SDHC (Up to 32GB)
|DC 12V Input
|Power Jack
|MIC Input
|3.5mm jack, pink
|Speaker Output
|3.5mm jack, green
|14.96" x 7.87" x 21.25"
380mm x 200mm x 540mm (+/-2mm include rubber foot)
|12" x 9.64" x 3.03"
305mm x 245mm x 77mm (+/-2mm include rubber foot)
|5.73 lbs (2.6kg)
External Storage
|Secure Digital (SDHC)
|USB Flash Drive
Package Contents
|RS-232/CVBS Cable
|3' USB Cable (Mini type)
|RGB Cable
|RCA Cable
|Power Adapter
|Software CD
|User Manual CD
|Carrying Bag
|Remote Control (including batteries)
|Anti-glare Sheet
|Warranty Card
|Quick Guide
Optional Accessories
|Microscope Adapter
|Part number: VISIFSEMA
|Light Box
|Part number: VISSPC3LB
|Anti-Glare sheet
|Part number: PANTIGLA1 (A5 size 8.26" x 5.84")
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Like many who suffer from body dissatisfaction, my journey into dieting began not with an active weight loss attempt, but with what we know as "food rules." No eating after 7:00 pm. No red meat because it's 'bad' for you with its higher fat content and link to cancer. No bread with its empty calories. No high calorie sugary treats - or if you do indulge - exercise a little extra to work off the calories.
The problem is that these food rules became increasingly restrictive. They were easy to justify in a mind ruled by disordered eating thoughts and beliefs. No red meat turned into no meat at all. Then no fish. Then, finally, no animal products. No bread turned into no products containing gluten. Then no processed foods. Again, in my mind, all of this was justifiable as the food products I was giving up were bad for you, or at the very least less healthy than whole, unprocessed food.
Before I knew it, I was vegan and gluten free and feeling quite superior about my eating habits. There's actually a name from that type of thinking. It's called orthorexia nervosa - "a pathological fixation on eating "proper" or "pure" or "superior" food." But veggies and fruit don't have a lot of calories. So the weight came off. At first I was praised for my thinness - I still am for the most part.


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Saint Alphonsus Medical Center — Nampa's nutrition services is a multifaceted department which is responsive to clients within the hospital, as well as the community as a whole.
When you are hospitalized at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center — Nampa, our food service team responds to your need for wholesome, nutritious food to meet your special dietary requirements. We also encourage healing and wellness while attempting to meet your food preferences.
Clinical nutrition staff include registered dietitians who are available to provide education to you and your family whether you are an inpatient or outpatient.
The clinical nutrition staff is available on a fee-for-service basis to assist in menu analysis and approval for assisted living, retirement centers or other facilities.
Nutritional counseling services or medical nutrition therapy is available on a fee-for-service basis through our outpatient department. A written referral from your primary care physician is required before an individual counseling appointment can be made. Have your physician complete the referral form, and fax it to us, and we will contact you to establish a counseling appointment.
Learn MoreFor more information about Saint Alphonsus' Nutrition Services, please call 208-463-5723.
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The U.S. Army failed to implement cost-control procedures on a cost-reimbursable service contract with General Dynamics Land Systems for logistic support for the Stryker vehicle family, a recent Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report says.
With the contract, which is valued at about $1.5 billion and covered work between March 2007 and February 2012, the Project Management Office for Stryker Brigade Combat Team (PMO Stryker) failed to "adequately define performance-based contract requirements in clear, specific, and objective terms with measurable outcomes," the IG says.
"The contract included a metric for availability," the IG notes, but did not include essential metrics relating to cost-per-unit usage (for example, miles driven) and logistics footprint (that is, dollars in inventory)."
PMO Stryker also failed to "establish the cost-reimbursable contract as one of the basic contract forms: either the completion-form contract in which the contractor is required to deliver a specified, definitive end product or the term-form contract in which the contractor is required to provide a specified level of effort for a stated period of time," the report says.
PMO Stryker also failed to establish an effective means to measure operational costs and ensure that the level of operational funding was tied to the actual workload required to sustain the Stryker vehicle, but instead, used estimates made years earlier.
"Consequently, the Stryker contractor logistics support contract had no tangible deliverable; neither complied with nor met the intent of DOD (Defense Department) performance-based logistics guidance; and did not meet Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements for a cost-reimbursable contract," the IG reports.
The Army also had no means to measure the efficiency of the contractor's cost performance or actual cost overruns or underruns in relation to the fixed fee, the IG notes. "Also, the sole focus on operational readiness created an incentive for the contractor to spend all available funds on Army inventory, valued by General Dynamics at about $676.2 million, resulting in little, if any, cost risk for the contractor or incentive to control cost," the report says.
"The contractor was authorized to spend about $1.45 billion on the contract, but we calculated the operational support costs for Stryker vehicles at about $1.12 billion for the first 5 years, resulting in about $335.9 million used to accumulate inventory that could have been put to better use," the IG reports.
the IG recommends the Program Executive Officer (PEO) Ground Combat Systems require PMO Stryker to establish and monitor appropriate cost and inventory control metrics, define contract remedies that include both positive and negative fee measures related to inventory turns and inventory accuracy metrics, use one of the basic contract forms and define a tangible deliverable.
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It looks like there are a lot of threads about hops breaking ground so it seems time for a catch-all photo thread.
The stubby one was transplanted the other day but seems to be doing just fine.
The other looks really healthy and is really searching now.
What varieties are those?
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Lookin' good Reno!
We still have subzero windchills here in Chicago, so...might be a few more weeks for me.
Yeah I've got 8 ft snow drifts surrounding my house....although it would be pretty neat to see a Cascade shoot poking out the top!
Hopefully I have anything measurable this year. I have a second year Teamaker and hopefully I will get a Centennial and CTZ from Great Lakes Hops.
I ordered some rhizomes but they haven't come in to my LHBS yet, but here is the raised bed and trellis that I built for them. I put soil in it yesterday, so it's ready to go! It's only 12ft but I built it so I can raise it next year if I need to. I'm doing one each of Nugget, Cascade, and Centennial.
Cant wait to get mine up, also waiting for my LHBS to get them in since we cant import them here in Oregon.
Going to be stringing them up the side of my house, which i measured is about 17 feet from ground to eaves. Probably going to be doing some type of pulley system for all 3 plants so they can be lowered and raised easily for partial harvesting, or if they get too aggressive and want to go above 20 feet i can drop some slack to give them more room to grow upwards....
Planning on Cascade, Columbus, and Newport...haven't done anything with Newport really, but ive read it grows like nothing else here in Oregon and is a really clean bittering hop.
Mine should arrive tomorrow. Any tips on soil/fertilizer? I plan on putting then in large pots for now.
Centennial peeking out at the sun.
and a Chinook crown, I uprooted to transplant to a sunnier plot.


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"Parallels" goes out with an all-day marathon
Mon Mar 26 2012
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You've always talked about how you're inspired by James Baldwin. Is there a link to that in this program?
I haven't thought of James so much in this work, other than his outsider quality and the contradiction: His work was so much about race, but also not. I felt like he was hanging onto race, because it was an energy he was sort of stuck with. And he died in the south of France; that's where he found his peace. At the end, his creative and artistic being seemed to rely so much on his blackness. I feel like he had to keep going back to race to make himself feel relevant when, in reality, I think he was beyond it. Of course, he would bury me with a lecture telling me how that was not the case. [Laughs] It's impossible, but of course I'm saying this from this kind of 21st-century perspective, too, right? I do think in his writings and his history that he was displaced a lot. That was also his rage: That he was beyond it, and he couldn't be beyond it. He wasn't allowed. He was also dealing with the issue of sexuality, which was creating a whole different kind of outsider discourse. To me, the outsider discourse is more interesting. But, yeah, this particular platform is dealing with that idea. Yet I don't think any of these performers are really outsiders now. They're part of a community. [Pauses] They're absolutely part of a community, but they're still outsiders. That's our struggle. And then I think, Are we even outsiders? Are we just part of this larger ecology, and this is just the way it is and then we find ways to make work within the truth of the ecology?
How exactly?
There's a truth here I think. It was the same for Merce [Cunningham]. It was the same for Martha [Graham]. I doubt things will be different 50 years from now. Unless there is some remarkable shift in how our work and way of working is valued. I mean if the visual art world finds a way to commodify performance, then maybe—but then it will just be for a handful of people. I do think the nature of work and how we make work is shifting and has to keep shifting. Is there some possibility that this shifting can find a different kind of value, a different kind of economy? That interests me.
Can you elaborate?
I go back to this whole discussion of dance in museums, and the whole Tino Sehgal sort of study and the selling of performances. [Laughs] Especially from someone who came from a dance background, but consciously moved into a visual art economy. I'm not sure that's relevant to this discussion, but there is the possibility that something temporal, like a dance, can be acquired. There are enough people with crazy, disposable incomes. The whole nature of buying and selling art, as we know it, is a game. Yes, there's certainly an appreciation of these objects, but at the same time, it's the play of how something is evaluated. This dead shark is worth this much. Or could be worth that much. There's something ridiculous about it, but then money on that level is very abstract. Its game potential keeps it activated, meaningful.
Do you mean the gamble of art collecting?
The play of it. I don't know if it's even a gamble. After a while, it's nothing. It's so much money, it's meaningless. Maybe dance is next. [Laughs] Right? Other than the curiosity of its fashion. I don't think you go into [the visual art] world without ever having some question of, "What's the value? What is the economy of this?" And that is really the new sacred, for better or for worse. I can look at Sarah [Michelson]'s new work [Devotion Study #1—The American Dancer] and go, "Sacred. I was moved." I leave really happy. Kind of like going to some art church or something. I don't need to think about, Is she going to sell that floor? What's going to happen to the neon? Will that go to a museum? I don't ask those questions, but I'm sure the art world was looking at it with a very different point of view. And that's not bad. And it's interesting when you think about this historically. The great works of Steve Paxton or Lucinda Childs or Trisha Brown or Merce Cunningham: On their purest level, the work and the artist disappear. There's a video, maybe there's a reconstruction or something, but it might be nice if it doesn't really disappear. What does that mean? Beyond a retrospective of bringing an old dance back. Is there a way of holding onto the temporality of this work beyond that? And I feel like new work, at least in my optimism, is now generating that question. And I don't know—maybe Balanchine did it already. There's this kind of energy about the work that's beyond the work. But is there a model for that?
How did you meet Nari?
He was in the Whitney Biennial many years ago. He had a hearse in one of the galleries that was completely covered in tar. It was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. And I found ways to meet this guy. [Laughs] I figured out how to get in touch with him. He was doing a show in an abandoned building up in Harlem, which is now his house. He ended up buying it. When I met Nari, he was making all this work by himself. It was really labor-intensive, handmade stuff that was very rigorous and elaborate and dense and very, very beautiful. And I asked if he'd like to collaborate on this work I was making called Geography. In his studio, he had this doorway full of bottles he had strung together. So it was the first iteration of the bottle piece [in Geography, the first piece in Lemon's three-part Geography Trilogy project]. It was so perfect; it was like the perfect piece of art because it dealt with light and holding light and the translucency of seeing. You can see through something, but what are you really seeing, and how much are you seeing and what are you really seeing?
And the weight of it, too.
And the weight. There are all of these very interesting contradictions. So, yeah, we collaborated on Geography. He built the whole bottle curtain, and the bedspring curtains, and I think we really enjoyed each other's company. We've learned a lot from each other about how to work in our own separate ways. Every once in a while we get together and collaborate on something. He's been really busy and at first he didn't think he had time for this ["Parallels" event], but then he called and went, "I've got to do this because we haven't worked together in a while."
He has a show coming up too, right?
Yeah. His show is opening the day before we load in. Then we have the marathon performance.
And when does your art show, "1856 Cessna Road," open at the Studio Museum in Harlem?
On March 29th. It's totally crazy. If I would think about it, I would freak out.
How do you remain so calm?
My new motto is: "Focus is food." I feel like I do the thing that I need to do on that day or in that hour, and then I feel really good, and there's a lot of substantial thinking and work that needs to be done. If I thought about the overall picture, yeah, I'd freak out. And the Studio Museum is great because it's older material of my work with Walter [Carter]; it's not like I'm putting together stuff that's brand new. It's what I've been building on for a while. It's ready to go, and it's just a matter of getting it into the space. I'm working with a really great curator.
Thomas Lax. I just feel like he represents that next generation of curatorial practices where they don't have a hierarchy. He loves performance; he loves dance; he's got a clear, really smart relationship to 21st-century visual art. It's not like, Oh that's that, and this is this. I feel like there are a number of young, good curators now who think that way. That was a big draw for this [exhibition], because I knew that it was going to be a lot of work. But getting the Walter work up there for that audience—it just feels really important.
How are you putting your experiences with Walter into context for a public who may not know much about your work?
Thomas has been working really hard writing an essay; I don't want him to say anything. [Laughs] But he's figured out a way to say what he has to say about it for that audience in a really concise and intelligent way that doesn't dumb it down and doesn't give it all away. I like, even for myself, that there has to be some context. I think that's an important negotiation for me. You know how much I love playing that game of, "I don't want you to know what I'm doing, but I do." But having that [Harlem] audience, there's a different kind of demand that I wouldn't have if I were downtown or in Chelsea, and that feels really exciting. It's karmic or something. So in some respects, there's a real interesting, connected conversation between the show and the marathon. I feel that even though the marathon is going to be a lot broader and a lot messier and a lot more unknown and more out of my control, it will still deal with a kind of black body politic.
That's what the exhibit and marathon have in common. But also the fact that there was so much unknown regarding the time you spent with Walter is another interesting connection.
Exactly. At the same time, Walter was so advanced as a human being. And it's also ultimately not about race. I mean we're looking at this black Mississippi man. I honor it. That mythology is certainly in the work. But for Walter, it's just like, I'm an old man.
I've seen a lot.
[Laughs] I've seen a lot. I'm an old man. And there are lots of us in the world.
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text: Front Row (L to R): Kyle Shin, James Lawrence, Kirby Neaton, Alec Henry, Henry Molofsky, Sam Ebb, Austin Cotant, Sam Roth, Alec Jolicoeur. Back Row (L to R): John Crooke (head coach), Ravenna Neville (assistant coach), Nick Buffie, Seth Hafferkamp, Julian Applebaum, Charles Lang, Matt Katz, Brendan Sheehan, Skyler Cummins, Bryan Marsh, Zak Malik, Scott Holmes (faculty mentor), Laura Pierce (assistant coach). Missing: Dave Tassone (assistant coach).


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Obama Lets Go Of Fear
This is a beginning. Right now Obama's support for gay marriage is nothing more than words; we'll see what actions (if any) follow. But the words are powerful. As a queer man it was very stirring - and even healing - to hear a sitting president affirm my equality. I'm not ashamed to say there were tears flowing down my cheeks when I heard the news story on NPR this afternoon.
And of course there are conservatives who are already airing their homophobic rhetoric, which is to be expected. It was particularly sad to see what John Michael Talbot, a Christian singer whose music I have enjoyed for years, posted on his Facebook wall today. There is so much fear and doublespeak in what John Michael Talbot has written. It reminds me of what supporters of slavery said before, during, and even after the Civil War. They were able to quote the Bible too - even more convincingly than Talbot was today.
I use the word "homophobic" (fear of homosexuality or of homosexuals) not as a slur but because I believe it is the accurate word to use today: I believe the anti-gay sentiment in our country is really about fear, not hatred. Sometimes it morphs into outright hatred, but I choose to believe that most people who rail against gay marriage are doing so out of fear, not hatred. The institution of marriage is in a shambles today - just look at the divorce rate, domestic violence statistics, and 72-hour Hollywood "weddings" - and many fear that if I as a queer man have the right to marry, that will somehow impinge on their rights, or it will somehow damage the "sanctity" of an institution that has already become desacralized.
Unlike many of my queer brothers and sisters, I believe it is possible for men and women of good will to disagree on this issue and still be friends or even worship together in the same churches. I love the Bible deeply and I revere it as inspired, but I view it as a collection of human documents, a record of humankind's progressive revelation and understanding of God over the course of many hundreds of years. My brothers and sisters who use the Bible to bash LGBTQ persons, sometimes without even realizing that's what they're doing, are reading the Bible outside of its historical context. I believe they will one day look back at their anti-gay rhetoric with embarrassment, much as the Southern Baptist church today looks back on its pro-slavery rhetoric, which was thoroughly "biblical," with embarrassment and apology.
Thankfully, my standing before God as an out-and-proud queer man does not depend on being accepted or even understood by John Michael Talbot or anyone else. Including President Obama. But it was wonderful to hear Obama's words today, and to see a sitting president let go of fear. Others will follow. This is my affirmation and my prayer: Others will follow.


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A beautiful olive green in color these would be a wonderful
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GOOD FINDS: 10 things you don't want to miss at Goodwill
There's a GOOD reason GOODWILL has more than 2,700 stores, it's GOOD shopping! Good for the people who receive valuable job training skills through Goodwill programs, and good for shoppers who visit Goodwill out of economic need, an admirable commitment to the environment or a lust for treasure-hunting.
Goodwill is good for the pocketbook and after many decades (yes, many) of Goodwill hunting and a quick tour around my house, I have compiled a handy list of 10 things to buy at Goodwill. And with a generous return policy to cover momentary lapses in judgment, make sure to seize the deal, instead of letting the one that got away keep you up at night. Trust me, it happens.
Here are 10 things you don't want to pass up:
1) Good artwork with bad frames, good frames with bad artwork: Occasionally they're both fabulous! Breaking down and rethinking the elements of Goodwill art can lead to a masterpiece.
2) Baskets and Boxes: I admit to having a strange fascination for containers, especially those with a specific purpose. I love functional old-fashioned sewing baskets, retro shoe shine kits and the amazing prices on the same wicker baskets that create sticker shock everywhere else.
3) Books: Take advantage of a nicely organized selection of never-cracked to well-worn titles. I started collecting children's books long before my own kids were born. Start your own collection for less than library late fees.
4) Pet Carriers and Kennels: If Goodwill's only purpose was to keep gargantuan hunks of plastic out of landfills it would be amazing. Make this your first stop if Fido needs a timeout.
5) Unique Evening Bags and Jewelry: For some reason Goodwill is rife with cool evening bags in all price ranges from ridiculously cheap to "collectible" cheap. The same goes for jewelry; bring your best knees and sharp eyes to survey the below waist case for diamonds(ish). Shop here to prevent unwanted twinsie moments.
6) Costumes/Ski Wear: If you're a patient Fashionista, deals abound for all manner of garb.
7) Nut Bowls: Call me crazy, but I think everyone needs a set of nut bowls – petite serving dishes to fill with little bites for visitors. Buy a set of three, keep them next to the snack drawer and stop hiding from drop-in visitors.
8 ) Ice Bucket: When Mad Men of yore retired and down-sized, they dropped their barware here.
9) Punch Bowls: Giant serving pieces sail in and out of Goodwill hourly thanks to the abandoned good intentions and dwindling storage space of frustrated mini-Marthas. Don't let me catch you paying retail for a punch bowl or soup tureen you plan to use once.
10) Platters/Plates: Goodwill is must-shop for entertaining supplies. Build a collection of cool, functional serve ware and vases and skip the rental store or expensive last-minute shopping. I'll stick to glass, crystal, silver and porcelain for cohesiveness. Yes, you can borrow my stash.


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Sarah McLachlan donates funds for World on Fire
Canadian artist Sarah McLachlan worked with director Sophie Muller from Oil Factory to launch her song, "World on Fire" as a music video that would change the world. Muller and her production crew donated their labour to the project, arranging for all the production costs ($150,000) to go to eleven charity projects around the world. The only production expense was $15, the cost of a Sony miniDV tape.
The video begins with Sarah McLachlan, sitting on a chair wearing jeans and playing accoustic guitar. What follows is mostly photographic footage from projects around the world along with a message in animated text and imagery.
Click on the image below to play the World on Fire video in YouTube (HD)
Text from World on Fire Video
What's wrong with this video?
Well, it only cost $15
$150,000 could make a difference to over 1,000,000 people.
On set in LA $200 = a production assistant for 1 day
or in Ethiopia 100 childrens school fees for 1 term.
Office Phones = $480
$480 Equips 10 classrooms in Afghanistan.
$5000 = Cost of make-up and hair for one day
or one years schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan
On set $500 = sound playback
In Bangladesh $500 = all the nuts and bolts to hold 50 houses together
Don't worry, we are not asking for money.
On set $1150 = filming equipment
In Nepal $1150 = bicycle ambulances X 5
$9,500 would have paid for meetings, tax and union fees
Instead, in West Africa $9500 paid for film screenings in refugee camps for 180,000 refugees.
This is a single mother in Ghana, Africa. She works 2 jobs 16 hours a day 7 days a week
To earn the $200 a year it costs to send her son to school. At night she sells her oranges. Each orange = 2 cents. She might sell 50. 50 oranges = $1
Kenya, Cambodia, Niger, Angola
$10,200 = 2 hours of film stock or = 6 wells built in 6 different countries.
$3,500 = a production supervisor or = schooling and support for 70 children of war in Sierra Leone.
In LA, catering for a one day shoot = $3,000
but this time $3,000 has bought 10950 meals for street children in Calcutta.
Studio Costs $5,400 = independence for 100 widows in Afghanistan
$15,000 Camera and Art Department Cost = a machine to generate power for an entire rural community – energy, irrigation, business
Cost of electricians on set for one day = $2625 = livestock as a source of food and income for villages across the world.
India $15,000 = 1 Mobile Medical Unit = styling costs. In its lifetime it will treat 150,000 people
12 million are blind due to cataracts which can easily be treated
40 % live below the poverty line
80 % live in rural areas with little access to health care
$2,500 = 1 editor or schooling for 100 street children in Tanzania for a year.
$11,000 = all editing and post. $11,000 will run a street childrens hospital for a whole year.
$1,500 will give 7 former child soldiers training in skills that will help them rebuild their lives.
$3,500 = 10 grannies adopted
$16,500 = Director's fee (+1st and 2nd AD – art directors) $16,500 = total running cost of a South African Orphanage for one year.
Kibera, Kenya – East Africa's largest slum. 800,000 people living in 1 square mile. 1 square mile = Central Park, New York City.
A producer would earn $7,500. This could buy 6 months of medicine for 5000 patients.
He is hungry but his body can't absorb the food.
The production company = $22,500. Instead Kibera will get a 12 room clinic.
So that is where all the money went.
Production Credits and Viewing Details
The video is available as a 10.778 mb quicktime video at www.worldonfire.ca.
The World on Fire site includes a list of all the charities and projects supported by the music video: Carolina for Kibera, Comic Relief, CARE USA, DORCAS, Engineers Without Borders – Canada, Help the Aged, Film Aid, War Child, Heifer International, ITDG, and Action Aid.
World On Fire – Closer – The Best of Sarah McLachlan (Deluxe Version) on iTunes
The 'World on Fire' video is one of the finalists in the Media That Matters Festival. In the background to the entry Sarah McLachlan explains that the song is about trying not to feel paralyzed when we see all that is wrong with the world. Even the small gesture can make a difference. When talking with Sophie Muller she had said that she felt as though she as an affluent musician was part of the problem of worldwide poverty. Muller suggested to McLachlan an idea she'd been developing for some time – a music video that did made a difference.
Lyrics for World on Fire
Hearts are worn in these dark ages
You're not alone in this story's pages
The light has fallen amongst the living and the dying
And I'll try to hold it in, yeah I'll try to hold it in
The world's on fire and
It's more than I can handle
I'll tap into the water
(Try and bring my share)
I try to bring more
More than I can handle
(Bring it to the table)
Bring what I am able
I watch the heavens but I find no calling
Something I can do to change what's coming
Stay close to me while the sky is falling
Don't wanna be left alone, don't wanna be alone
Hearts break, hearts mend
Love still hurts
Visions clash, planes crash
Still there's talk of Saving souls,
still the cold
Is closing in on us
We part the veil on Archille's Sun
Stray from the straight line on this short run
The more we take, the less we become
A fortune of one that means less for some
Chorus x2
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Tone and firm your body with these targeted poses
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Warrior Lunges A
Strengthens back and legs. Step right leg out wide, bending knee at a 90-degree angle, keeping left leg straight. Extend arms out to the sides so they form a straight line.


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J.D. Souther Says People In Nashville Love "Nashville"
The veteran songwriter, performer, and actor talks about songs he famously wrote for The Eagles, James Taylor, and others, as well as his role as Waddy White on TV's "Nashville."
Country Stars Come Out In Droves For ACM Honors Event
The sixth annual ACM Honors took place in Nashville on Monday night and featured such artists as Dierks Bentley, Kellie Pickler, Kenny Chesney, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, and Hunter Hayes.
Dierks Bentley, Hunter Hayes, Kellie Pickler, Clint Black Among Stars Performing At Monday's ACM Honors
The ACM Honors event celebrates out-of-the-ordinary efforts from some true country superstars as well as artists, musicians, and industry vets who work behind the scenes.
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Country newcomer [lastfm]Sahara Smith [/lastfm]gets the Last.fm Discover spotlight this week. She recently released her debut album on Playing In Traffic Records entitled Myth Of The Heart. Click through to see Sahara and her band […]
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Musically, [lastfm]The Secret Sisters [/lastfm](Lydia & Laura Rogers) were first introduced to us via [lastfm]Jack White[/lastfm]'s Third Man Records. Now, with the release of their self-titled debut album, get ready to enjoy that somewhat old-school […]


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I got this in GWP, which was the best GWP package that I have ever received in my entire life. This l/s is fantastic. It gives a great nudish pinkish shade to my lips and to a certain degree, my lips look plumped, not in an odd shape but totally sexy and beautiful. It stays on my face until I take it off. Gorgeous and a HG material.
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Before Shia LaBeouf decided to take his truck for spin late Saturday night, he reportedly hung out in a club, drinking his face off with Transformers 2 co-star Isabel Lucas.
The actor, who needed extensive surgery after his car flipped twice and he was arrested for DUI, was partying with his pals at the Troubadour club watching the Lemon Son band, before he got behind the wheel.
"He was dancing around and acting really crazy," a source told UsMagazine.com. "He kept doing shots of whiskey."
Apparently Isabel didn't think all the shots Shia was was throwing back were an issue, as she got in the car alongside of him. The young starlet was reportedly treated at the hospital and released, with no major injuries, after the crash.
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I can't keep up with all the Veterans Day nonsense that LRC readers are sending me. (But thank you for all of it.) Pendleton Outlet has 15 percent off for Veterans. Logan's Roadhouse is donating a portion of proceeds to The Folds of Honor Foundation. Sporting events will be taken over this weekend by military worship. It is never ending. I don't watch Monday Night Football (or any football), but that will probably be the worst for military idolatry.
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The Road Less Traveled (CD)
by David Osmond
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|Loneliest Walk
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At only four years old, David Osmond became the lead singer of the vocal group The Osmond Boys. Shadow Mountain Records is extremely excited to announce a new inspirational album from this talented singer and song writer. Combine David's voice with incredible original songs and heartfelt renditions of timeless hymns, and you have an album that will bring you closer to the Lord while filling your home with beautiful music.
- Tracks:
- Waiting
- Speak
- Comeback
- Loneliest Walk
- Chains
- Road Less Traveled
- Good Girl
- Holy Ground
- Help Thou My Unbelief
- He Hears Me
- Let Me In
- Bonus Disc:
- Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer
- Abide With Me
- I Know That My Redeemer Lives
- Nearer, My God, to Thee
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by Customer - reviewed on September 17, 2010
This is legit. I really, really liked this album. David Osmond is a really talented musician, and these songs are fun and have a powerful message to them. This is really fantastic. I absolutely recommend this.
Great gift
by Liahona - reviewed on February 23, 2011
I received this cd for Christmas and have not stopped listening to it. Such a range of songs and such amazing songwriting skills. My 10 year old daughter is a fan too. Can't wait for the next one from this talented artist
by Kathy - reviewed on September 28, 2010
I LOVE this CD! David's singing and writing skills are excellent on each one. The acapella version of "Let Me In" brought tears to my eyes. I was impressed with his singing on the "Joseph" CD so I bought this, and now I'm even more impressed. All ages will love this music (I'm 50-something). The bonus CD of hymns was excellent too, except not long enough! Good Job David!
by Susan - reviewed on September 14, 2010
This is more than just a Sunday CD. I listen to it throughout the week. These songs quickly bring the Spirit into my heart and place my mind on Christ. I feel hope and light and love through this CD. David's voice is happy, haunting, peaceful, etc. There's such a great variety of genres but David's strong suit is definitely soft and thoughtful. My favorite: He Hears Me. Oh! And the hymns are WONDERFUL! I wish he'd record the entire LDS hymnbook!
LDS music that's current
by Bertha - reviewed on September 15, 2010
David Osmond has a more youthful, contemporary style. Not cheesy like many LDS artists. The Lonliest Walk is my favorite. So good!
Good Girl is Amazing
by Heather - reviewed on September 01, 2010
I love the song "Good Girl." Love it; Love it; Love it!


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The U.S. military says it will go ahead with the deployment of a dozen MV-22 Osprey aircraft at American bases in Japan despite local protests and ordinances which strongly oppose the move. At a Pentagon news conference Friday, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said U.S. officials have had "very good discussions with our Japanese allies" and have given them assurances regarding concerns about the aircraft's safety record.
"But the important thing, we felt, was to be able to deploy these planes there, and that we will continue to brief them with regards to the operations of these planes," the secretary said.
"Actually, we think we've reached a very good compromise here. … I think we've been able to relieve their concerns with what we've presented to them," Panetta continued. "But we're going to continue to work with them. The good thing is that our ability to deploy these forces will certainly help us with regards to our whole rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific region."
Recent accidents involving an MV-22 and a CV-22 aircraft raised concerns about the fleet upgrade by the governor of Okinawa, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said June 20. Senior Defense Department officials briefed a Japanese delegation on the incidents at the Pentagon June 22.
On April 11 in Morocco, an MV-22 crashed while taking part in a bilateral military exercise. Two on board the aircraft were fatally injured, and two others sustained serious injuries. Flight data indicates the aircraft performed as expected. In a statement, DOD officials said the U.S. Marine Corps determined the aircraft did not suffer a mechanical or material failure and there were no problems with the aircraft's safety.
Earlier this month, a CV-22 crashed during a training mission in Navarre, Fla., leaving five crew members injured. A preliminary review uncovered no information that would preclude the aircraft's continued operation, Pentagon officials said.
The Defense Department, including senior U.S. Air Force leaders, stands behind the CV-22's reliability and is convinced the aircraft is safe for operation, officials said in a statement.
The MV-22 Osprey operates with the speed and range of a turboprop, the maneuverability of a helicopter and the ability to carry 24 Marine combat troops. It travels twice as fast and five times farther than previous helicopters.
The Air Force CV-22 Osprey is a special operations variant of the aircraft. It can fly like an airplane and land like a helicopter.
The DoD says the MV-22 Osprey has an excellent safety record and has logged more than 115,000 flight hours, the Defense Department statement said. About a third of those flight hours were flown during the last two years, the statement continued, and the Osprey achieved these flight hours performing combat operations, humanitarian assistance, training, and test and evaluation missions.
Basing the Osprey in Okinawa will strengthen the U.S. ability to provide for the defense of Japan, perform humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations, and fulfill other alliance roles, the Pentagon statement said.
But Bloomberg Business Week reports that the move was the subject of a protest by about 5,000 people on June 17th, and that the local governments in Iwakuni and Ginowan on the island of Okinawa have passed resolutions against the deployment.
In response to remaining safety concerns, officials said, the DoD said in a statement that the MV-22 will not fly in Japan until results of the investigations are presented to the Japanese government in August. During this time, Japan will be the only location worldwide, including the continental United States, where MV-22 flight operations will be suspended, they added.
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In the realm of supply chains and distribution logistics, Santa's the guy. Even FedEx and UPS, the recognized leaders in the field, fail to measure up against the benchmarks he maintains, year after year, without fail.
So you'd presumably be safe in assuming that the planning and design of his village at the North Pole would reflect a similar insistence on best practices. That it would be a model worthy of emulation — not just in terms of efficiency and productivity, but in terms of the emotional, economic and spiritual fulfillment necessary to maintain a happy and motivated workforce.
But is that the case? Consider these village maps laid out below. Both seem less reflective of timeless settlement patterns and more concerned with the wide separations — in terms of both use and class — popularized in the 20th century.
In the first example, an elfin subdivision — though, admittedly, one comprised of adorable cottages — isolates the working class, indicating no manner of public transportation and requiring a lengthy walk across town to get to work. Meanwhile, fully removed is Santa's stately mansion, providing a troubling reinforcement of patriarchal divisions of class and social standing.
The second example takes this a step further, sequestering elves to 60s-era public housing bunkers that maximize business efficiency with adjacent workplaces but move dining and church services to the other side of town. And again, Santa's mansion, with its stately grounds and vantage-point siting, aggressively reinforces divisions of social and economic standing. However, in this case, it's also worth noting the adjacent Elf Mansion, presenting a curious nod to the prospect of aspirational social climbing. An incentive program, perhaps, to manipulate elf performance?
On the positive side, example one does denote an appropriately-scaled neighborhood school, as well as decent proximity to a good place to eat. It also embraces the North Pole as Top of the World Park, clearly a public civic space, while example two orients that same physical landmark as something more akin to Santa's private garden than to any kind of shared amenity or community gathering grounds. However, example two does offer a nicely articulated, pedestrian-oriented, light industrial/commercial row that delegates its more onerous activities (loading docks, storage, etc.) to the rear.
From an environmental standpoint, as noted by reader Alvin M., both schematics appear to introduce non-native plants to the tundra, requiring impactful interventions in the form energy-consumptive, C02-emitting heating systems and petroleum-intensive subsoil additives and related reclamation efforts.
Finally, there's the fact that neither of these plans reflects any way in or out of town other than Santa's private transport, making local food a must even though no provisions are made on either plan for accessible ag. While I understand such isolationist efforts may be necessary from a continued operations standpoint — preventing elfin escapes and whatnot — they're also contrary to the notions of freedom and liberty we hold in high regard.
What do you think? Any planners on holiday this week, itching to sketch up a traditional, mixed-use alternative? If so, email it to me and I'll add it as a redemptive postscript.
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I read a scifi story years ago that I would like to re-read but can't remember the title. Please post if you remember a story about the similarity between the iron-centric organometallic hemoglobin for animals and the magnesium-centric organometallic chlorophyl for plants. I believe that in the story characters who ate a certain meaty fruit experienced some sort of conversion to part animal, part plant physiology. Sounds terrible, I know, but it actually was a very interesting tale. I think it was a short story by one of the well-known authors. Thanks


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Piano Seminar: Tomoko Mukaiyama
Presented by New England Conservatory at New England Consevatory
March 8, 2013
New England Conservatory piano chair Bruce Brubaker invites the public to join NEC students in exploring the challenges and complexities that pianists face in the world today, through presentations and masterclasses by guest artists and NEC faculty.
Pianist and visual artist Tomoko Mukaiyama leads today's seminar on interdisciplinary art.
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Golf Urban Legends Revealed #3
This is the third in a series of examinations of legends related to golf and whether they are true or false.
Let's begin!
GOLF LEGEND: A golfer once climbed a tree to make a shot during a tournament.
STATUS: True
Bernhard Langer has the distinction of being the very first golfer ever to be ranked #1 in the Official Gold Rankings that began in 1986. He remains the only German golfer ever to have that distinction (and seeing as how there have only been twelve players to be ranked #1 since the rankings began in 1986, it's a great honor PERIOD).
Early in his career, he played pretty much only in Europe, so he was not widely known in the United States. That changed one day in 1981 while he was competing in the Benson and Hedges (B & H) Open in England.
On the seventeenth hole, Langer hit a nine iron for his second shot, but he pulled it way left and it hit a big ash tree.
You can see it here…
However, while you would normally figure a ball would hit a tree and land next to it, this ball actually remained LODGED in the tree!!
Langer had to decide – take the penalty drop (an extra shot would be added to his score, but he would be able to play the ball down on the grass) or actually shoot it from the tree?
Langer, naturally, chose the latter option…
And, sure enough, he actually managed to hit the green from the tree!!
The shot was broadcast all over the world, and when he went to the United States a few days later for his first American golf tournament, he was now a household name amongst golf fans (it helped that he was also the co-leader in that US tournament in the third round).
Langer went on to become one of the top golfers in the world. Had the rankings started a bit earlier, he undoubtedly would have added a few more weeks to his reign at the top of the rankings. He has won the Masters twice (1985 and 1993) and in 2001, he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
That shot of his should have him inducted into the "bold golf shot hall of fame"!
GOLF LEGEND: A golfer once knocked himself unconscious after being hit in the head by a golf club he had just thrown into the sky in celebration of a shot.
STATUS: True
Bobby Cruickshank was a Scottish golfer who had such an engaging personality that when he came over to the United States in the early 1920s, he was practically adopted as an American right from the get-go.
Over the next 19 years or so, Cruickshank was one of the most popular golfers on the tournament circuit, although he never actually ended up winning a "Major" tournament. He came in second at the U.S. Open twice, and was in the Top Five of many a Major tournament.
One of his top five performances appears to have been the result of a rather…silly injury.
In 1934, Cruickshank was in the lead at the U.S. Open with only eight holes left to play. On the eleventh hole, Cruickshank misfired on a shot and the ball went careening into a creek. However, miraculously, the ball skipped over the water, hit a rock in the creek and then ricocheted BACK ON TO THE FIELD OF PLAY, coming to rest on the putting green!
Naturally, Cruickshank was elated! SO elated that he threw his golf club up in the air in celebration! However, as the saying goes, "what goes up must come down," and the club did come down – right on Cruickshank's head! The blow knocked the Scot unconscious.
He was eventually revived and he played the rest of the tournament, but he began bogeying shots and at the end he lost the tournament, coming in tied for third.
Now, we can't, of course, PROVE that the blow to the head and subsequent loss of consciousness DIRECTLY led to the bogies, but it sure doesn't seem hard to make that leap, does it?
So remember, folks, celebrating is fine – just keep your eyes open!
GOLF LEGEND: Clifford Roberts once said that "As long as I'm alive, golfers will be white, and caddies will be black."
STATUS: I'm Going With False
This is a tricky one, to be sure.
Clifford Roberts is a legend in the world of golf, and not always (heck, rarely) for things you would think he would have liked to have been remembered for, like co-founding the August National Golf Club in 1931 with Bobby Jones (then the most famous golfer in the world) and then forming the Masters Tournament with Jones in 1934.
No, Roberts (who served as the Chairman of the Masters from 1934 until 1976) is best known for being, as the World Golf Hall of Fame describes him, "autocratic, mysterious, intimidating and often enigmatic."
Roberts (seen above with Bobby Jones sitting next to him – Jones is in the center and Roberts is on Jones' left) was a strange guy who greatly helped to innovate the game of golf, and it was through his stewardship that the Masters became the premier golf tournament that it remains today. Roberts invented the current golf scoring system (that makes it easy for viewers to quickly figure out how a player is doing) and he designed most of the current gallery setups for fans to view the game. He ran a very tight ship but one that was geared towards making the Masters the greatest golf tournament around. In one example of how desperate he was for the Masters to be "perfect," he even asked Jones to not come to the Masters late in Jones' life, because Jones, enfeebled by Lou Gehrig's Disease, would be a distraction from the festivities.
That last story shows how Roberts could be a real tough guy to work with at times. Another, more serious, claim against Roberts was over the racial makeup of the Masters Tournament.
It was not until 1975 that an African-American golfer competed in the Masters (the first non-white player was a few years earlier, Sukree Onsham of Thailand, played in 1970 and 1971).
That golfer was Lee Elder.
And many folks believed that Roberts wanted nothing to do with Elder. You see, Elder was an up and coming golfer in the late 1960s and early 1970s who had to deal with a LOT of racial crap. As the years went by and Elder continued to excel, a lot of pressure was put on to Roberts to invite Elder to play in the Masters (which he would be allowed to do, as they had done for many foreign players over the years, but never for Americans – otherwise, you had to win a PGA Tournament to qualify to play in the Masters, and even THAT was not a way to get in until the early 1970s). The United States House of Representatives even specifically asked Roberts to invite Elder. Roberts refused, stating ""to make an exception would be practicing discrimination in reverse."
Finally, in 1974, Elder won a PGA Tournament, so he competed in the 1975 Masters and went on to compete in five more Masters over the years.
While Roberts was very nice and accommodating to Elder when he showed up for the 1975 Masters, many folks, especially fellow African-American golfer Charlie Sifford still believed (and Sifford still believes today) that Roberts had made a quote that has been widely attributed to him over the years, that "As long as I'm alive, golfers will be white, and caddies will be black."
Now, again, let me note that I'm not saying that Roberts was not racist. Heck, the odds are that he likely was at least somewhat racist.
However, what I AM saying is that Roberts was very cognizant of what Augusta's position on race looked like to the American public, and as such, he was VERY careful with how he spoke about race in public.
When you add in the fact that I've never seen anyone actually have a definitive source for WHEN Roberts said the quote (it is always either " I heard he said it" or most commonly it is just attributed to Roberts without ANY reference, like it is obvious that he said it) or WHO he said it to, I just don't think we can properly claim that he said the quote.
A year before Elder made the Masters, Roberts told reporters that he would be very happy if a black golfer made the tournament, and talked up a former caddie that he felt was likely to do just that. For a man as obsessed with appearances like Roberts was, he was far too calculated to make some blatantly racist comment. Sometimes, even in his carefulness he would end up sounding racist anyways (like when he talked about how fond he was about his African-American servents in his auto-biography – he is clearly trying to show that he likes black people, but the way he writes about them makes them almost sound like they're his pets), but he would always make a point of not saying anything blatantly racist. So I just don't buy that he would make a statement as obviously racist as that, and with no one ever giving any proof about when he said it or to who, I think it's fair to say that, for now at least, we should go with a "false" for this one.
Roberts, by the way, ended up taking his own life on the greens at Augusta in 1977 (he was 83 years old and quite sick at the time).
Okay, that's it for this week!
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|Subject: NMSU's 2006 OSHA 300 Log (2006 Accident Summary)
|From: David Shearer,
|Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:47:26 -0700
|To: NMSU hotline
NMSU's 2006 OSHA
300 Log (Accident
All NMSU-related employment units e.g. campus departments, institutes (PSL, NMDA, CEMRC, etc.), branch campuses, ASC facilities, etc.) should print the document and posted it on a bulletin board in employee area(s) for information. Under New Mexico law this annual summary log must be posted from February 1 through April 30.
Per discussion with NM-OSHA, the linked display on the NMSU website will meet the regulatory requirement, however EH&S recommends that the log also be printed and posted for employee information. Either a print of the html/gif image (change the printer setting to landscape for better results) or the pdf file (this may require installing Adobe Acrobat) is acceptable for posting.
Questions on the log details or for division summaries should be directed to Chuck Ryder, NMSU EH&S at 575-646-3327.
Thank you.
David Shearer,
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Hello everyone!!
My name is Katie, I am 24 years old and am the proud parent of a 2 year old male Pit named Beemer. My husband and I got Beemer a few weeks ago and are already smitten by Beemer's charm. We live in Pennsylvania. We have been looking/trying to get a Pit Bull for almost 2 years and just about given up hope until we found our Beemer. We really wanted to go to our local SPCA to adopt a pit but we had a horrible experience with the staff and have not looked back. That is another story for another time perhaps.
My husband was looking on Craigslist and ran across an add that said "Male Pit Bull Free to Good Home" and a few hours later we were at a couple's house meeting Beemer for the first time. I will admit I was very skeptical of just about everything with this deal. So we were talking to the couple and they were explaining Beemers backround which sadly was his previous owner lost her job and could no longer afford a place that would allow Beemer and also just could not afford him in general. So, the owner had given him to this couple as a foster parents who she knew would make sure he would go to a good home. The couple(Mark and Lisa) had wanted to keep him themselves but could not due to them having 4 other small dogs who did not like him one bit. After a few more minutes of spending time with Beemer we could tell he was loved and treated good and someone had taken time with him on obedience. He came housebroken, crate trained, knows how to come, sit, stay, paw, other paw, down, and all other kinds of stuff...the list could go on and on. Mark and Lisa also just had all of his shots updated and gave us the vet records. Beemer is a solid healthy 80lbs with a head the size of a basketball but I love him!!
Ever since that first day every day is exciting to come home to him and to see what new thing he does to make us laugh and fall in love with him more and more.
My husband and I are active people and love to spend our weekends going somewhere new. Now, we have Beemer who LOVES car rides so of course he comes with us whenever we go somewhere where he can take him in of course
I am looking forward to being a part of this forum and already love everything I have read so far!!


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Hyperfactory Gets Some Mouse Money
Hyperfactory, the mobile marketing company, is getting a boatload of cash from former president of Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Television Group Rich Frank (not to be confused with Frank Rich, who, we're guessing, doesn't keep cash by the boatloads).
No one is saying how much money Frank is giving Hyperfactory, but it's apparently enough to help the company launch an entertainment division aimed at record labels and film and TV studios, according to Online Media Daily.
"This is a strategic move on our part as an indicator of one of the new areas we're going into, and where we see the [mobile] space headed," says Hyperfactory CEO Derek Handley. Previously, the company worked indirectly with entertainment brands and talent via Madison Avenue; now it will now seek to partner directly with Hollywood.
So, if you get in a car wreck because some jackass couldn't take his eyes off the Hoobastank video on his iPhone, you know whom to blame.
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