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This series may not have as much meaning as the last few, but at least it's finally against a team with a record comparable to the Cubs.
By way of reminder, the Series Preview hooks you up with what you need to know about every series this year – streaks, broadcast information, pitchers, lineups, etc. That way you can look like a genius, hardcore fan in front of all your friends, with minimum effort. Oh, and there will be pictures of beautiful women, too.
We're Going Streaking
The Cubs lost the first series in the Crosstown Cup to the White Sox this week, giving them back-t0-back series losses for the 347th time this season. Incidentally, the Cubs haven't won back-to-back series all year.
After a warm start to the 2011 season, the Royals have fallen back to the comfortable spot they call home: last place in the AL Central. They've lost five in a row and seven of eight, and stand 13 games under .500 (which, sadly, makes them a game better than the Cubs).
Game Times and Broadcasts
- Friday, June 24 at 7:10 CT on WGN.
- Saturday, June 25 at 6:10 CT on WGN.
- Sunday, June 26 at 1:10 CT on CSN.
Expected Starters and Lineups
These lineups are likely to be pretty close to what actually gets fielded.
Starters: Ryan Dempster (5-6, 5.46), Carlos Zambrano (6-4, 4.50), Randy Wells (1-1, 5.70)
- Fukudome, RF
- Castro, SS
- Ramirez, 3B
- Pena, 1B
- Soriano, LF
- Johnson, CF (also Campana)
- DeWitt, 2B (also Baker, also LeMahieu)
- Soto, C
- DH (Cubs will probably give Ramirez a day as DH, ditto Soriano)
Starters: Bruce Chen (4-1, 3.59), Danny Duffy (1-2, 5.03), Luke Hochevar (4-8, 4.97)
- Melky Cabrera, CF
- Eric Hosmer, 1B
- Billy Butler, DH
- Eric Gordon, LF
- Jeff Francoeur, RF
- Mike Moustakas, 3B
- Brayan Pena, C
- Alcides Escobar, SS
- Chris Getz, 2B
Hot or Not and Whom to Watch
Thank God for Starlin Castro. He's got a ridiculous .444/.490/.644 line over his last 11 games, and gives us all something to cheer for.
Carlos Pena also continues to rake. Despite a dreadful start to his time with the Cubs, he's got his OPS up to .790, and he's homered in three straight games.
In May and June, Ryan Dempster has a 3.38 ERA over 10 starts, seven of them "quality." That stretch includes terrible outings against St. Louis and Florida, so he's actually been pretty dominant in most of his starts the last two months. You can see why other teams are asking about him.
As for the Royals, Bruce Chen comes of the disabled list for his first start since early May. He was surprisingly good on the year until he went down with a lat strain.
Alex Gordon – remember him when he was an uber prospect? – is actually pretty hot right now, riding a 10-game hitting streak. He's hitting .333 with two homers and 10 RBI during that stretch.
Jeff Francoeur, on the other hand, is not hot. He's got just five hits in his last 42 at bats.
Series She-View
The Series She-View is one beautiful woman representing the Cubs taking on another (usually) beautiful woman representing the opponent. The Cubs' representative will change as the team's needs change – in other words, if the Cubs are winning, the rep will stay the same. But if the Cubs' performance calls for a change, someone new will step in. The opponent's representative will change from series to series, at my whim. But at least she'll probably be wearing the opponent's colors or something like that.
Well, Minka Kelly just didn't bring the Cubs the same magic that she brings the Yankees and Derrek Jeter. So be it.
It's time to move on to someone new.
You know who's crazy hot? Victoria's Secret model Erin Heatherton. Where has the world been hiding her? I only became aware of her recently, but, once I saw that she was from Skokie, Illinois, I knew she had to represent the Cubs asap. If we ever move back to the one-rep-for-the-whole-season thing, she's a definite candidate. I can say with confidence that she'll be sticking around for a few series, regardless of the outcome.
The Royals can have themselves a royal (I'm so clever): the new Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine Middleton. She's the one who married Prince William in that whole wedding hullabaloo earlier this year. Er, uh, so my wife tells me.
We'll also give the Cubs an unfair advantage in the pictures sizes. Because this is my place.


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1-I played as Bohemia and after I took the land from another Duchy (I cant remember the name sorry but it was on north of Bohemia) my country color wouldn't expand. I mean there is a border line between the countries but the colors of duchies, kingdoms or etc won't expand or shrink with the borders. It is very hard to notice the borders. So is this a bug in demo or is it a feature?
2-I dont understand the heir mechanism behind of the Bishoperies. I cant see they marry so how is the heir appointed?
3-Why are those plots continiuosly changing? Every time i looked at them, it was changed.
4-Is it a way to become a Holy Roman Emperor? I know the Emperor is elected but whenever i look to the election, only i am supporting myself and all other 12 Duchies are supporting the son of the Ruler. Is there a way to gain support without war?

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Washington Huskies guard Venoy Overton was charged Tuesday by the Seattle City Attorney's Office with a misdemeanor for allegedly providing alcohol to a minor – a gross misdemeanor. Overton, a senior who attended Franklin High, is due in Seattle Municipal Court on April 1. The charge is punishable by up to a year in jail, […]
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Vince Grippi of the Spokesman Review reported Monday night that Washington State coach Ken Bone has lifted the suspension of leading scorer Klay Thompson, and Thompson will be available for Thursday's Pac-10 quarterfinal game against the Washington Huskies. Thompson was suspended for WSU's 58-54 overtime loss to UCLA on Saturday following a citation Thursday night […]
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Here are the quotes sent out by the Washington Huskies athletic department with reaction from coach Lorenzo Romar, guard Isaiah Thomas, forward Matthew Bryan-Amaning and guard C.J. Wilcox regarding today's all-conference selections. Thomas and Bryan-Amaning were named first-team All-Pac-10, Bryan-Amaning won the conference's Most Improved award, and Wilcox was named to the all-freshman team. Romar, […]
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Washington State coach Ken Bone said during his weekly media availability on Monday that a decision about leading scorer Klay Thompson's status with the team will be made in the next 24 hours. Thompson, who was arrested Thursday night after Pullman police allegedly found 1.95 grams of marijuana in his GMC Envoy following a traffic […]
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Isaiah Thomas, Matthew Bryan-Amaning named first-team All-Pac-10
Washington Huskies guard Isaiah Thomas and forward Matthew Bryan-Amaning were both named to the 10-player, first-team All-Pac-10 team on Monday. Bryan-Amaning also took home the conference's Most Improved Player award. Thomas was also named first-team All-Pac-10 last season, and was a second-team selection as a freshman. As expected, Arizona forward Derrick Williams won Player of […]
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ESPN's Lunardi drops Huskies to No. 10 seed in latest projections
The Washington Huskies are falling, but ESPN's Joe Lunardi doesn't think they've fallen out of the NCAA Tournament picture. Lunardi projects the Huskies as a No. 10 seed facing Cincinnati in Charlotte in his most recent bracketology update. He has them slotted against the winner of the No. 2 vs. No. 15 matchup of North […]
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SI's Andy Glockner thinks Huskies are probably NCAA-bound
Maybe the Washington Huskies' loss to USC on Saturday won't be as damaging to their postseason chances as originally thought. At least that's how Andy Glocker of Sports Illustrated sees it. In his weekly Bubble Watch column, he lists the Huskies under the "should be in" category. Glockner: "The Huskies got a second win over […]
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Overton not pleased with Huskies' effort in 62-60 loss
Venoy Overton did everything he could. He chased USC guard Jio Fontan around all night with mixed results. He led the scrambling defensive effort that nearly resurrected the Washington Huskies before they fell 62-60 on senior night. And afterward, he spoke candidly, if not harshly, of the effort put forth by some players on this […]
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Huskies will finish Pac-10 season in third place, face WSU on Thursday
One of the guttiest efforts of the Pac-10 season fell just short on Saturday afternoon, as the Washington State Cougars blew a 15-point halftime lead before falling 58-54 in overtime to UCLA. The win clinches second place for the Bruins, and means the Washington Huskies will finish alone in third place — and it also […]
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Arizona wins regular season Pac-10 championship
The Pac-10 game of most interest Saturday to Washington Huskies fans (besides their own, obviously) is the UCLA vs. Washington State matchup, but figured we'd pass along the news that the Arizona Wildcats have clinched the regular season Pac-10 championship with a 90-82 win over Oregon. The Wildcats earn the No. 1 seed into the […]
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There is a single sequence of a few frames in Fernand Leger's Ballet Mecanique that seem to sum up both the intention of the film and its mystery. At exactly two minutes and fifteen seconds into the film a bird appears. It is a parrot (perroquet, a cockatoo) turning to face the camera and then turning away. It disappears in a flash of light and is not repeated.
Why in a film composed of repetitions and enlargements of everyday objects do we find this single bird? Was its lack of repetition intentional?
Leger's structure for Ballet Mecanique seems to be what Roland Barthes has called a "cycle of avatars" (The Metaphor of the Eye, essay included in George Bataille's Story of the Eye, Penguin, 1979.). The avatars are everyday objects enlarged to archetypical status passing one from the other, repeating, transforming, and interupting each other. A good deal has been written about the animated construction of the film from cleverly lit fragments of ordinary objects, faces, and the looping of sequences. The pattern of Leger's visual judgements are apparent.
This film, the first declared "sans scenario" in its text introduction, is a collage. The swinging chrome balls, the gears of machines, the dancing bottles, the rotating disks juxtaposed with femine lips and eyes are all awaiting the female form trudging endlessly up and down the stairs with her burden. The symbols seem obvious to us in an age of technology and sexual advertisement/liberation.
But what about this single bird?
The approach to this image begins with a woman defining the depth of the frame by swinging to the lens and then away. (Actually, the very first image is the animated Chaplin figure which ends the film but it seems only a graphic trick at the onset.) It sets up Leger's basic proposition that motion is erotic, the apparent presence of emotion. (from Old French "esmovoir": to excite, varient of Latin emovere, to move out, stir up. American Heritage Encyclopedia Dictionary, p.553.) Film would then be inherently emotional by definition. And it is this definition that Leger molds into a flashing gesture, a dance - a ballet of luminance.
To continue the flesh-motion we are given the lips, first in comedic and then in tragic pose. Isolated from the face, cropped and de-personalized, the lips are flattened to the screen. Then the procession of spinning , whirling, refective, metal begins. The motion of the machine, the self-reference to the mechanism of creation - the camera - the tool that makes everything move, reveals the eroticism of the artificial moment. We see a man's face appear as if from between shutter blades (is this Leger?). The sequence is repeated and disolves into turning crystal then to prismatic swinging disks.
Then a bird.
Its eye is registered with the preceding images-the eyes of the man, the holes of the crystal, the center of the disks. It is looking at the camera, at the viewer. It is not a machine, it is not a human. Every other image (except the last) in the film is repeated, replicated in whole or in part. Every other image is a machine reproduction metaphor. The bird (if indeed it is a parrot then Leger is making a subtle joke on the mimetic quality of the specie) is only seen this one brief moment. It is seen in profile, turns and looks into the lens, bows, lowers its head, disappears into a flash of light. The next image is the circle.
For an instant we are seeing the moment.
"For an instant, the energy of one's perception becomes inseparable from the energy of creation (John Berger, The Sense of Sight, The White Bird, Pantheon Books, 1985, p.9.). In this singularity, this one image, Leger gives us metaphor and reality. Time is real; the bird appears and is gone. In the context of the collage it is a heart beat in world of artificial drumming. Fragility of the moment, fragility of the body, fleeting beauty, the feather soft touch of the erotic, the wing. Unlike the still photograph that condems an image to eternal scrutiny, the film touches and is gone. Trapped in the ballet, the bird returns to time, to nature. "Art does not imititate nature, it imitates a creation, sometimes to propose an alternative world, sometimes to amplify, to confirm, to make social the brief hope offered by nature. Art is an organized response to what nature allows us to glimpse occasionally."
Of course, Leger may never have intended this. These few frames may be just so much footage left in as another element of "syntagma" Syntagma means the plane of concatenation and combination of signs at the level of actual discourse. (Roland Barthes, Metaphor of the Eye, p.127). But if we examine the film as it has arrived to us through the sixty three years since its creation, then these few unrepeated images give us a platform to view the rest of the piece.
The bird is not a stop-motion, but a moment of arrest. "This is the meaning in art of relativity. An object in motion has difficulty taking into account other motions. Only by achieving rest, arrest, can we percieve what is happening outside ourselves. Simultanism, the third voice of life, signifies an approach to immobilty and this is an extremely sensitive attenument to the infinite universe. Arrest is achieved not by absence of power to move, but by an equilibrium of forces...The paradox is that even arrest has no final peace, for it continues to be relative motion; nothing can attain absolute stillness in our physical and spiritual system. (Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years, The Art of Stillness, Vintage Books, 1968, p. 351.)
The images following the bird comprise the bulk of a circular journey. At two minutes fifteen seconds, nature leaves the film. We are left with, in a sense, memories of the future.
Geometric forms plunge into one another, numbers appear (early evidence of digital tyranny?), rotating steel objects, bottles looking like gun shells, swinging spheres, reflections of the camera itself, spinning/gyrating/undulating surfaces of ordinary objects transformed by the mechanical process of film. "By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the otherhand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action...Evidently a different nature opens itself to the camera than opens to the naked eye...Here the camera intervenes with the resources of its lowerings and liftings, its interruptions and isolations, its extensions and accelerations, its enlargements and reductions. (Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, Art in the Age of the Mechanical Reproduction, Schoken Books, NY, NY, 1968, p. 236-237.)
Humans return to the images briefly.
Amusement park rides move bodies through thrills, marching soldiers feet tramp across the frame, what appears to be a figure is thrown up diagonally across the frame. But these apparitions disappear into the whirling multiple kitchen tools, pumping pistons, and organisms of gears. The eyes of the lips come and go, cropped into boxes in the corners of the frame, left then right. Finally the woman moving her burden up and down the stairs, the mechanized cinematic robot eternally looped outside of nature.
At this point text appears declaring "We've stolen a pearl necklace of 5 million". Zeros flash. Text is reversed. The word is not exempt from the mechanical dance. A news headline? A declaration of crime? Fact and fiction melting into cinematic reality? Illusion and substance interchangable?
The differences between text and representation would soon become a problem of surrealism. Leger anticipates it very distinctly by including the flipping lines of words, numbers, and characters. "Now this distinction between writing and vision...is an old antinomy within Western culture, and one which does not simply hold these things to be opposite forms of experience, but places one higher than the other. Perception is better, truer, because it is immediate to experience, while representation must always remain suspect because it is never anything but a copy, a re-creation in another form, a set of signs for experience. (Roseland E. Krauss, the Orignality of the Avante-Garde and Other Myths, MIT Press, 1985, p.94.) In these few frames Leger has encapsulated a major artistic controversy that continues to the present.
But the film rushes on.
Past the ringmaster now swinging on the swing from the first frames, shaking pots and pans, disembodied legs dancing in animation around a clock, the hat and shoe having filmic intercourse, and finally the entire head whose lips and eyes have gestured to us. But the head is androgenous, the eyes closed, it rotates as a doll's head. Close-ups of the eyes, tilted to the lens, then away, always closed.
There is no emotion, only motion.
A lonely row of bottles dance by and the cut-out animation of the Chaplin icon disintegrates. The first image of the woman returns as a final gesture. She is off her swing and she is exhibiting a new sense. She is smelling the flowers.
It is the only other unrepeated image in the film.
If we think of Fernand Leger's Ballet Mecanique not as a twelve minute film but as a moment, a metaphorical system of memory can be revealed. The images of film form a field of photographic data. The data is at once formal, historical, personal, and social. A slice of tissue from the main body of time.
In 1924, for instance, there was a large exhibition in Paris at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs called The Exposition de l'art indigene des colonies d'Afrique et d'Oceanie. (Krauss, The Originality of the Avante-Garde and Other Myths, p.48.)
Why this interest in primitive objects?
Partly I think because the works represented a pure intention by the makers to imbue objects with spiritual power. Partly because the objects were not metaphorical, they were real. Leger used the style in a sketch for Creation Du Monde published in L'Esprit nouveau, no.18,1924. From this angle we can look at Ballet Mecanique as a kind of ritual ribbon. The fabric is inscribed with the everyday object transformed. More telling is the use of the Chaplin figure done in much the same style as the figures in L'Esprit nouveau. But in a larger context this exhibition, as well as Ballet Mecanique, tell us a good deal about the times.
The early 1900's unleashed technology. The airplane, the automobile, the skyscraper, the light bulb, the radio, the phonograph, the zipper, the fountain pen, the portable typewwriter, the electric elevator, the telephone, the motion picture, and aerial bombing were being embraced as MODERN. Any one of which (perhaps not the zipper or the fountain pen) could have caused serious revolutions in human behavior. It was a period not unlike our own in which an event like the exploding of a space ship takes place and only momentarily jars us from techno-hypnotic trance.
The terrible shock of World War I was still a numbing memory in 1924. (One wonders how many nations at war constitute an official world war?) The first global horror.
It is not difficult to understand the interest in a primitive art exhibition of objects that are "whole" in that they have a sense of timelessness. These are things that have had their edges worn smooth by ritual use.
Technology and a stock market boom created a release from the war memory. An old world had died. The new one needed new ideas, new forms, international identities, manifestos, liberations. A new idea of time was necessary. Everyone from Einstein to Dali was conscious of the need for the dynamic, modern time. Arnold Hauser saw it this way: "The accent is now on the the simultaneity of the contents of consciousness, the immanence of the past in the present, the constant flowing together of the different periods of time, the amorphous fluidity of inner experience, the boundlessness of the stream of time by which the soul is born along, the relativity of space and time, that is to say, the impossibility of differentiating and defining the media in which the mind moves. In this new conception of time almost all the strands of modern art converge: the abandonment of plot, the elimination of the hero, the relinquishing of psychology, the "automatic method of writing" and, above all the montage technique and the intermingling of the temporal and spatial forms of the film. (Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Vintage Books, Vol.4, p.239.)
A mechanical dance. Other versions of the mechanical ballet were being created. The post-impressionist visions of cubism, futurism, constructivism, all turn reality sideways in order to look down its edges into a new retinal belief. "Post-impressionist art can no longer be called in any sense a reproduction of nature; its relationship to nature is one of violation. We can speak at most of a kind of magic naturalism, of a production of objects which exist alongside reality, but do not wish to take its place. Confronted with the works of Braque, Chagall, Roualt, Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Salvador Dali, we always feel that, for all their differences, we are in a second world, a super-world which, however many features of ordinary reality it may still display, represents a form of existence surpassing and incompatible with this reality. (Hauser, p.230.)
Leger hurls us headlong into the second world. The innocent image of a woman on a swing in a garden, the impressionist icon, is blasted by geometric forms, flipped upside down. The portrait is cut into lips, eyes are replaced by gleeming spheres and shining planes. We are in an aerial view at one moment, looking up from below an autombile the next, spun, clipped, rotated, fragmented, caressed by light. As a primtive totem of the "body-as-whole",(Krauss, p.48). the images pulse. The musical rythmn on which they ride is the beat of the automaton.
Other works like Maholy Nagy's photograms or Marcel Duchamps' Large Glass of the same period have similar characteristics. Maholy-Nagy (Man Ray as well) used light sensitive paper to create "grams" or hand made machine relics (Figure 4). Duchamp invested some five years in the transparent painting/sculpture/ projection of the Large Glass, working toward his concepts of the "ultra- thin (Paul Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Notes, G.K. Hall, 1986, p.290. as a farewell to painting (figure 5)).
We can, of course, see the film as the personal statement in a world of accelerating mass culture. The strange place of the artist between capitalist individualism and the socialist voice of the people. Using the toy of the technocracy (the film) as a weapon against the dehumanization process of the industrial power structure; the marching feet, the pounding pistons, the maddening repetition of the burdened woman, On a Vole En Collier de Perle!
In this respect Ballet Mecanque fulfills the mission of the ritual object. As a field, a fabric, it is cathartic and rhetorical at the same time. It is a mechanic's ballet, a dance that ordinary people do. The sequence of artificial legs animated near the end have a special quality (Figure 6). As they flip and dance, they kick. They beat on the frame, they lurch for the audience.
Robert C. Allen/Douglas Gomery, Film History, Theory and Practice, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, NY, 1985.
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye (with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes), Penquin, NY NY, 1979.
Roland Barthes, Image, Music, and Text, Hill and Wang, NY,NY, 1977.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, Schoken Books, NY, NY, 1968.
John Berger, About Looking, Pantheon, NY,NY, 1980. Sense of Sight, Pantheon, NY,NY, 1985.
Jack Burnham, Structure of Art, George Braziller, Ny,NY, 1973.
Phil Davis, Photography, Wm. Brown, Dubuque Iowa, 1982.
Fredrick Hart, ART, A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Vol.2, Abrams, NY.NY, 1976.
Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Vol. 4, Vintage, NY,NY.
Rosalind F. Krauss, The Originality of the Avante-Garde and Other Myths, MIT Press, 1986.
Paul Matisse, Marcel Duchamp,Notes, G.K. Hall, Boston, 1986.
James Monaco, How to Read a Film, Oxford University Press, 1977.
Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years, Vintage Books, NY,NY 1968.


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The storyline centers around your merry band of brave (if stupid) adventurers, including characters like House and Susan Boyle (shh, that's not official). Though they're trying to save the world, they need a bit of help; your task is to get as many to the end of each level as possible. Let too many die, and you'll have to try again. Each level is filled with dangerous obstacles—spikes, toxic pools, swine (flu), various enemies, you name it—and other obstructions. Your heroes will move mindlessly forward until they hit a wall, so to control their movement, you must draw lines. Lines then become part of the landscape—you can make a wall, a bridge, or whatever the situation calls for. However, you've got a limited amount of ink, so you must pick your paths with care. The lines also fade with time.
The 20 levels are packed with increasing challenge. Though easy at first, you'll soon have to think hard about how to avoid each obstacle without wasting your ink; managing all of your heroes as well as the enemies is a tricky thing, and there are multiple solutions to each level. You can replay a completed level any time you wish, which is often necessary if you want to collect all the possible achievements. As for the controls, drawing lines is pretty straightforward, but you do have to be careful; your heroes can't climb too-steep paths, and sometimes you can inadvertently trap one whilst drawing a line.
TipTop's plot is linear…a bunch of stupid, well-meaning heroes are on a quest to save the world. But the game itself is incredibly fun to play. The controls are good, the tempo is quick, the artwork is fantastic, and the sense of humor present in the plot just makes it even more fun. You also get Plus+, which always nice. If you're in the mood for some chaotic hero-management, TipTop is an easy recommendation.
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Listen to First Of Tha Month, a new offering from Maejor Ali, which was released on Friday, March 11th, 2011.
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2014 Schedule is: May 2 thru September 28 (as always weather dependent and temperatures above 56). We may be flying earlier in Spring and later in Fall if temperatures cooperate. Please call and check for dates and times outside of those posted.
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- Local Sight-Seeing Tour - this 15 minute flight is a great experience and offers a nice taste of the open flying cockpit adventure while viewing the beautiful local sights of Middleton and the surrounding area. This flight is $80 per person (fare based on a minimum of 2 passengers and may cost more for a single passenger)
- Wisconsin River Tour - this will be our 3rd year offering the popular 30-35 minute flight which takes you over Mazomanie, up the beautiful Wisconsin River, then northeast to Sauk City and returns for a soft landing on the grass runway at Morey Airport. This flight is $150 per person (fare based on a minimum of 2 passengers and may cost more for a single passenger)
- NOTE: We will try to add singles to another group if needed. All flights are weather dependent so call Ted at 608-751-8000 with any questions.
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Rather than eat up wall cabinet space, this warming drawer tucks easily into typically unused space on the kitchen peninsula.
Warming drawers are separate appliances and are often installed to match the wall oven, as shown in this country-style kitchen.
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Foxes earn deserved replay
Joe Hart's glaring error enabled skipper Andy King to earn Leicester a deserved FA Cup third-round replay following a 2-2 draw with Manchester City at the Walkers Stadium.Hart failed to hold onto an innocuous cross from Paul Gallagher - and King converted the rebound midway through the second half.Sol Bamba gave the Championship side a first minute lead but James Milner and Carlos Tevez put the visitors in the ascendancy before half-time.Leicester earned their second chance and were a constant threat from the set-pieces of Gallagher. New signing Bamba troubled Roberto Mancini's side in the air and Hart made some fine saves before his blunder.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- With the Bush tax cuts likely to expire at the end of the year and all current "qualified dividends" (i.e., on non-REITs) soon to be taxed as ordinary income, REITs -- having always been taxed the same way -- should soon be viewed as a "level playing field" alternative. Accordingly, Obama's re-election should be viewed as a positive for health care REIT stocks with meaningful exposure to hospitals medical office buildings.
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Clara Hagman
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Clara Hagman (born July 9, 1991 in Gävle, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and former member of the pop band, Ace of Base.
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Hagman participated in Lilla Melodifestivalen 2002 with the song "Hej, vem är du" finishing fourth.[1]
In 2008, Clara competed in the inaugural Next Star singing competition. She performed Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" and placed second in the competition.
The following year, she made it into the semi-finals round of Idol 2009 after performing renditions of Duffy's "Warwick Avenue" during the audition rounds. She performed Oh Laura's song "Release Me" for her semi-finals appearance, but did not receive enough votes to advance to the finals round.
Ace of Base (2009-2012)[edit]
In 2009, Clara was recruited by Ulf Ekberg and Jonas Berggren along with another singer, Julia Williamson, to join Ace of Base, replacing founding members Jenny and Malin Berggren. The new lineup released their first album, The Golden Ratio on 24 September 2010. Clara departed from the band in 2012. [2]
- ^ Angelica Ränttilä, Madelene Linderstam. "Nytt ess i Ace of Base", Gefle Dagblad, 8 augusti 2010. Läst den 30 oktber 2013.
- ^ Julia's official Facebook page, retrieved 2014-03-24
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Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 439617, 10 pages
Research Article
Analysis of Erbium and Vanadium Diffusion in Porous Silicon Carbide
1Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 26 Polytechnicheskaya Street St., Petersburg 194021, Russia
2Mathematical Department, Faculty of Radiophysics, Nizhny Novgorod State University, 65 Il'insky Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Received 5 March 2012; Revised 1 June 2012; Accepted 15 June 2012
Academic Editor: Jörg Fink
Copyright © 2012 Marina G. Mynbaeva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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