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Female impersonation need say nothing about sexual identity, but it has for a long time been almost an institutionalized aspect of gay male culture.
Although sparse in images documenting the gay community, pre-Stonewall gay male photography blurs the boundaries between art, erotica, and social history.
Given the historic stigma around making, circulating, and possessing overtly homoerotic images, the visual arts have been especially important for providing a socially sanctioned arena for depicting the naked male body and suggesting homoerotic desire.
Independent films that aggressively assert homosexual identity and queer culture, the New Queer Cinema can be seen as the culmination of several developments in American cinema.
Renowned photographer, teacher, critic, editor, and curator, Minor White created some of the most interesting photographs of male nudes of the second half of the twentieth century, but did not exhibit them for fear of scandal.
The first international fashion superstar, Halston dressed and befriended some of America's most glamorous women.
An artistic movement that grew out of Dadaism and flourished in Europe shortly after World War I, Surrealism embraced the idea that art was an expression of the subconscious.
Film, stage, and television actor Paul Winfield was openly gay in his private life, but maintained public silence about his homosexuality.
On March 21, 2013, in very chilly weather, a line began forming in front of the United States Supreme Court. Prospective witnesses to history gathered in hopes of securing scarce tickets to observe the oral arguments in two key cases involving same-sex marriage that will be heard by the Court on March 26 and March 27. Most of us, however, will have to be content with reading and hearing the arguments.
In a nod to the high level of public interest in these cases, the Supreme Court announced on March 19 that it will release, shortly after the arguments are completed, the audiotapes and written transcripts of the hearings. The sound recordings and the transcripts will be available on the Court's website.
The recordings and transcripts of the arguments involving California's Proposition 8 should be available by 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on Tuesday, March 26; the material regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) should be available on March 27 by 2:00 p.m.
The Supreme Court recently issued its "hearing list" for the cases.
Arguments in the Proposition 8 case, now called Hollingsworth v. Perry, will begin at 10:00 a.m. on March 26. One hour has been allotted for argument.
Charles Cooper, the lead attorney for ProtectMarriage.com and the official proponents of Prop 8, will argue in defense of the law's constitutionality. He has been granted 30 minutes. Theodore Olson, representing the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8, will argue that the law is unconstitutional and should be invalidated. He has been granted 20 minutes.
In addition, Solicitor General of the United States Donald Verrilli, Jr., has been granted 10 minutes to present the federal government's position that Proposition 8 should be considered under heightened scrutiny and thus ruled unconstitutional.
In the DOMA case, U.S. v. Windsor, which will be considered on Wednesday, March 27, beginning at 10:00 a.m., argument has been divided into two sections.
The first section, which will last for 50 minutes, will focus on the question of whether the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) of the United States House of Representatives has the legal authority to defend DOMA since the Executive Branch has declined to do so. These jurisdictional arguments will also consider whether there is a legitimate controversy for the Court to consider, since both the plaintiff in the case (Edie Windsor) and the defendants (the federal government) agree that DOMA is unconstitutional and do not dispute the lower courts' rulings to that effect.
In this first section, Harvard Law professor Vicki Jackson, who was appointed by the Court specifically to argue against standing, will contend both that BLAG lacks standing to defend DOMA and that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to hear the case. Deputy Solicitor General Sri Srinivasan will argue on behalf of the federal government that the Court has jurisdiction to hear the case, while Paul D. Clement, who has been hired by BLAG to defend DOMA, will present the case that BLAG has standing to appeal the Second Circuit's ruling in Edie Windsor's favor.
After the argument concerning standing, arguments on the merits of DOMA's constitutionality will commence. Paul Clement has been allocated 30 minutes to argue on behalf of BLAG, while Solicitor General Verrilli will present the federal government's position against the law for ten minutes. Windsor's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, a partner at the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has been granted twenty minutes to argue against the constitutionality of DOMA.
In addition to the crucial question of standing in both cases, other issues that are likely to surface in the oral arguments include the following. The interpretation of Romer v. Evans, the landmark 1996 case in which the Supreme Court invalidated a state constitutional amendment enacted by popular vote that prohibited municipalities and state agencies from granting lesbians and gay men protected status, is almost certain to be raised since the Ninth Circuit's opinion invalidating Proposition 8 rests on Romer v. Evans. The question of whether laws affecting gay men and lesbians should be subjected to "heightened scrutiny" or the more deferential status of "rational scrutiny" or perhaps some intermediate level of scrutiny will also be highlighted in the arguments. Also likely to be the subject of disagreement between the parties is whether Proposition 8 and DOMA violate the constitutional principles of "equal protection under the law" and "due process."
It should also be kept in mind that the questions from the Justices are sometimes more significant than the presentations by the attorneys. While the questions may not necessarily indicate the way an individual Justice will ultimately rule, they may signal the issues that will be at the forefront of the Court's deliberations.
Nan Hunter at her blog Hunter of Justice, comments as follows on the questions asked by the Justices: "Most of the time, most of the questions are probing for the weaknesses in whichever argument is being made by either side. These queries don't necessarily indicate how a Justice will vote. A Justice may ask the toughest questions she can think of for the party she (probably) favors, in order to clarify an issue that she knows is bothering another Justice. Occasionally, the questions become almost rhetorical and before you know it, the argument is effectively between Justice X and Justice Y."
Although the arguments will not be televised, some bloggers are planning to "live blog" during the proceedings.
An indispensable source of information about the marriage equality cases is Equality on Trial, the website sponsored by the Courage Campaign. Adam Bink, Jacob Combs, and Scottie Thomaston do an excellent job in covering judicial proceedings concerning marriage equality.
In the video below, Tom Goldstein, founder of Scotusblog, offers a "Viewers guide to Gay Marriage Oral Arguments."
In the following video, from June 2011, Theodore Olson and David Boies, joint counsel in the case challinging Propostion 8 celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which struck down state bans on interracial marriage. They hope that the Supreme Court this year will make a similar ruling in the Proposition 8 and DOMA cases.
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Randy Newman
By Joshua Klein , October 27, 2008
Randy Newman's not the most prolific songwriter, but when he does deign to release a new record, it's because he's got something to say. Harps and Angels is full of the satirical barbs and critical observations Newman fans have come to expect, from the pre-post-racial narrative of "Korean Parents" to "A Piece of the Pie", which invokes his fellow pop stars-- Newman's not afraid to name names-- as a means of illustrating the death of the American dream. Of course, in conversation, Newman is just as likely to expound on the commercial appeal of Poison power ballads, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and jai alai ("jai alai players have really big right arms, and really little left arms"), but he's not above talking about his music, too.
Pitchfork: I assume you're out in sunny Los Angeles.
Randy Newman: It isn't sunny, actually. We're all real depressed. Everyone's outside, worried.
Pitchfork: You waited nine years between records.
RN: That's a good way to put it.
Pitchfork: Why the rush?
RN: Well, I should have done more work in that area. If I'm going to be remembered for anything, it's that. Of course, I don't care if I'm remembered. But people who like [my work] wish that I had done more. I did a lot of pictures in that time, though, so I was busy with other things. When you don't write for a while, and then you go back to it-- it's goddamn hard! It's harder. It's hard at all times, I think. But staying away a while makes it harder.
Pitchfork: Well, doesn't the word "write" have its roots in the word "tear," something very physical?
RN: Well, yeah. But I still spent a lot of time lying around watching television, too. I was reading a book by Simon Schama, the historian. I found this book on the shelf I had barely heard of, so I got a bunch of his books, and I can't understand how he has the time. Does he have researchers? A History of Britain, Rough Crossings, something about Holland [The Embarassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age --Ed.]... incredible!
Pitchfork: Is it a different discipline for you when you sit down to write your own music, as opposed to being hired to write music?
RN: Yeah. The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.
Pitchfork: One of the more interesting aspects of your career is that you've avoided churning out an album every year, which I think has helped you avoid getting tagged as a novelty, for lack of a better word. You're not just writing off the headlines.
RN: Don Henley is always teasing me, asking if I've written another little novelty song. The fact is, what people like are the love songs. No doubt about it. Their favorite song on this new record is "Feels Like Home". I like it, but it's a fairly generic love song. Other people write 'em. But some of the stuff, no one else is doing-- maybe for good reason! But that stuff is more interesting, the Jackson Browne song ["A Piece of the Pie"], or "Korean Parents", "Harps and Angels". But "Feels Like Home" still goes some nice places, I think. And people really like it.
Pitchfork: Not that I would ever resort to calling you a cynic, but how do you remain authentic to the song when you know there are certain beats, certain melodies that will move people automatically?
RN: I don't really know that. After this experience, after this "Feels Like Home" thing, I know it a little more, but I can't do it automatically. I sort of can't help what I write. If I like it, I'm just so glad that I've got something that I can fill 28 seconds with. I'll take it. But I don't know anything about touching people automatically.
Pitchfork: I just read the Warren Zevon oral history, and your name pops up a couple of times in passing as a sort of elusive gold standard.
RN: That's nice of him to say. He was his own fella. He did just fine with his writing. Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted-- I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that. And I kind of got it, and realized, I want more! [laughs] It's always gratifying to me when someone like Elvis Costello mentions me, someone whose work I admire.
Pitchfork: Thanks to the Disney movies, probably more people have heard you than ever before, but maybe fewer people have heard of you.
RN: I think that's probably true, though it's probably narrowing the "heard of you" now with this record. But it'll never touch Toy Story or A Bug's Life, where I'm essentially anonymous. That's in every home with a little kid, and it'll be there for years. But you're right-- they've heard me, but it's like hearing an oboe player who plays on every music session.
Pitchfork: Does that anonymity free you at all?
RN: You know, maybe it has, yeah. That's a good question. I think if I had more success it might have pressured me out of writing just whatever I wanted to write-- I don't have that strong a character. But when I did Born Again, that was after I did "Short People", which was a hit but a novelty hit. And Born Again, just looking at the cover, seems like a reaction to that, presuming that people would know I'm not just some asshole with makeup on. They'll know who I am. Which was a mistake-- they don't know who I am. That's the weirdest album I ever made.
Pitchfork: Your weirdest album came right after your weirdest success story.
RN: "Short People"? Yeah. I must have thought... you'd rather have a hit. But "Short People" was the worst kind of hit to have. If you can have a bad hit, that would be one of them. It was like "Witch Doctor" by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Pitchfork: But David Seville did a lot of strange songs besides that one.
RN: He did. I knew him! Ross Bagdasarian. Yeah, [legendary Warner Bros. exec] Lenny Waronker's father started Liberty records, and Bagdasarian saved him from bankruptcy. Lenny's father's name was Simon. They named the Chipmunks after executives at Liberty-- Simon, Alvin [Bennett], and Theodore [Keep].
Pitchfork: The times I've seen you perform live, I've been struck by the economy of your lyrics, but people tend to equate intelligence with wordiness.
RN: I don't. I mean, I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.
Pitchfork: Do many of your songs begin bigger than they end up?
RN: I wouldn't say many, but there's always a few. I'll cut down the verse or... some of these songs I kept thinking about, like there was something wrong with them. I tried to get rid of that John Mellencamp line first [in "A Piece of the Pie"], but I liked that first line so much-- "There's a famous saying someone famous said"-- I liked that so I kept it. I could have then gone, "As General Motors goes, so goes we all, the company's so sick now it's almost dead." And I never got it to where I thought it was a really great chorus, but that chorus, when I thought of that-- "That's not true, John's a patriot" and all that stuff-- it sort of made it OK. But I never liked that verse much.
Pitchfork: And now you have to live with it forever.
RN: Yeah. It sounds like I'm praising Jackson Browne and slamming Mellencamp, which is not what I'm doing.
Pitchfork: Do you feel a certain rueful satisfaction when you write a song like "Political Science" that remains trenchant so many years later?
RN: It's a surprise that I'll play songs that-- of course, I'm playing to the choir. That they've lasted this long, no one would have had any idea. I mean, you could tell the Beatles stuff would last. But "Political Science", there's always been that strain in the country. It's sometimes more predominant than it is other times. Now it's to the point where they don't laugh at it.
Pitchfork: It's ironic that we're a couple of decades past the end of the Cold War, and yet in a lot of ways the prospect of nuclear annihilation seems closer than ever.
RN: Yeah, it's a little surprising. But when you think about it, historically, when the lid comes off, when Tito goes to Yugoslavia, boom, they go to war. Their 700-year-old feuds flare. That's what happens. You get rid of the Shah... well, you don't get rid of him but you remove him, and then all the old discontents rise to the surface when there isn't somebody sitting on them.
Pitchfork: The last few years have been so ridiculous it's gone way past funny, to the point that you can't laugh at it.
RN: It's surreal. They actually outed a CIA agent, a government official-- imagine if a Democrat had done that! They'd go to prison forever. What's unbelievable is that the polls are close.
Pitchfork: It's hard to laugh at the prospect of something so bad so close to reality.
RN: It really is. And the racial component is much greater than the polls would indicate. And the interesting thing, this is the best country in the world for that. In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country's been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of. So we've got that. So, what the hell. You know, you end up having these conversations, but I always hate it when a celebrity or show-biz people start talking about politics. Yet one of the things I resent about this administration is that they almost force you to. It's so blatant and right in your face.
Pitchfork: Yeah. I mean, how many years-- literally, years-- has it been since they've shown a flag-draped coffin?
RN: I know! I hadn't even thought of that. Again, it's unbelievable.
Pitchfork: You're one of a very few songwriters to implicitly or explicitly address race or race relations in your music.
RN: Over and over. That's why they've improved so much. It's like I wrote in that song ["A Piece of the Pie"], only Jackson Browne has stayed interested. Really, all that fervor and good will of the late 1960s and early 70s, it went away. Things were left to remain the same. My kids just went to a camp where they worked with Hispanic and African-American kids in shelters. I mean, they come from another world. It was a fantastic experience, but, boy, their experiences were very different. And the black kids had it worse than the Hispanic kids. A lot of the Hispanic kids had cohesive families, at least a little bit. The black kids didn't. It's the saddest thing going. But people get so scared. When the Republicans say the Democrats are going to tax and spend... I mean, things look shitty! I don't know about where you are, but the roads are shitty, the schools are shitty....
Pitchfork: Oh, it's pretty shitty everywhere.
RN: It's because we're not taxed like other Western countries are. They lowered my taxes! How can a country countenance lowering taxes on the upper income? I can't believe it!
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Story Time
While rummaging through the ruins of old console games,
I have found one that hasn't aged a day in my mind- Suikoden 2.
I realised this game was probably one of the best JRPGs- hell, RPGs I've ever played.
Screw that, best story game I've ever played.
Which bummed me out a little. I finished RDR not long ago, and the story was decent.
Actually, it was pretty well done. But something was missing..
And it wasn't the nostalgia- I played Suikoden 2 about four years ago.
That's not enough time to get all mushy about it.
So, if it's not the poochie-poochie feelings, then what?
Well let me tell you something about the characters, story and writing in this game...
Marston's love and blindness
I didn't really like John Marston, and certainly had no attchement for...
...his wife and son, who the story writers desperately wanted to shove down my throat the last couple of hours of the game.
All they did was whine, and make me do pointless missions. Yes, after four missions of shooting damn forest animals,
I felt waaaay closer to my "son". You know what they say, nothing makes a bond between a man and his boy tighter, than shootin'
and skinnin' some deer!
It just felt dirty. All of it.
It felt that way because it was forced.
John Marston may have loved his family- he lived with them for 16 years.
I on the other hand, couldn't care less about a bunch of strangers I've met an hour ago,
and only knew an hour before everything ended.
I barely cared about Marston himself.
Don't get me wrong, Marston is clearly a more likable fellow than Niko or Carl Johnosn.
But he's just too passive about everything. he has his moments, but mostly he just doesn't care.
End spoilers.
Games that made you think
So maybe it just wasn't for me. Some people enjoy it, but does it make them/you think about it?
Does this game make you care and feel bad/good for all the people involved?
Persona 4 did. Good story driven games do that.
I'm not saying ONLY JRPGs are skillful at creating an interesting world with charismatic characters,
no, I cared about the fate of my crewmen in Mass Effect 2.
Except for Miranda, I mean- she has a nice ass, but man..
I have no idea what someone was thinking when writing for that character.
Oh, but she has a sister that she cares for! Bleh!
Suikoden 2 was one of the few games with a story I cared about.
I also got deeply invested in some of the Final Fantasy games,
mainly FFIX- it has an amazing way of pulling me into the world it has created.
Even if it was a lil' bit cheesy here and there..
And how could I forget The Longest Journey?
That game was worth the time spent on looking at a faq
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February 2015
Landsat 8 Goes Over the Top
On June 21, 2014, Landsat 8 acquired an unbroken swath of 52 individual scenes over the Arctic. The midnight sun of the summer solstice allowed scientists to see more of the color and diversity of snow, ice, and cloud formations. Starting in Scandinavia, Landsat 8 cut across the Arctic Circle, northern Greenland, and through Canada's Nunavut and Northwest Territories. NASA released a video of the imagery, along with close-up views of some favorite scenes, on its NASA Earth Observatory Web site. The swath is a good demonstration of how the Earth-observing satellite can monitor change over time in remote locations on the globe.
Climate and Land Use Change Mission Area
The USGS Climate and Land Use Change Mission Area recently launched an updated and expanded Web site. The site features news, science features, a quarterly newsletter, information on how to access data, and links to specific science activities. Learn more about the science that helps the USGS understand a changing world and how it impacts our natural resources, our livelihoods, and our communities.
January 2015
Landsat's Return on Investment
What is the real value of the Landsat program? The Landsat Advisory Group, a team of commercial, state/local government, and non-government geospatial information experts, has been working on an answer. They concluded that the economic value of just one year of Landsat data far exceeds the multi-year total cost of building, launching, and managing Landsat satellites and sensors. It's a stunning return on investment for the program that collects consistent, continuous land change data and distributes it freely online.
Read the USGS Top Story Science Feature for more details about the study.
December 2014
Case Studies of Landsat Imagery Use
September 2014
Open-access Satellite Data
Changes in land cover affect the global climate by absorbing and reflecting solar radiation, and by altering fluxes of heat, water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other trace gases. Detailed assessments—regional, global, daily, and seasonal—of land use and land cover are needed to monitor biodiversity loss and ecosystem dynamics. Satellite imagery is the best source of such data, especially over large areas. In many cases, satellite data are restricted or charged for. Not true for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) satellite imagery.
A new era of open-access satellite data began in 2008 when the USGS released its Landsat archive, the world's largest collection of Earth imagery, to the public free of charge. Monitoring land cover change in near-real time is now a reality. According to an article by Michael A. Wulder and Nicholas C. Coops in Nature magazine, "Freely available satellite imagery will improve science and environmental-monitoring products." Read the full story here.
July 2014
Observing Earth Today and Tomorrow: A National Plan
Humans have been observing Earth for a very long time simply because the conditions of the Earth are basic to our survival and our prosperity. Even the most ancient written records are filled with accounts of great floods, famines, and earthquakes. When to plant and when to harvest, how to use precious water resources most effectively, and ways to avoid natural disasters are all age-old challenges that have encouraged Earth observation from the beginning of civilization. Read the full story here.
Landsat's Lunar Scans
Even though Landsat 8 is an Earth-imaging satellite, it was designed to turn away from Earth once a month and scan the moon. Landsat's sensors need to detect light consistently over time. The best way to measure Landsat's performance is to compare it to a stable source of light. The calibration team at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the USGS EROS Center use the most stable light source they can—moonlight. With these lunar scans, the engineers can adjust the calculations that turn Landsat's data into accurate land cover information. Read the full story here and see a video created by NASA Goddard that demonstrates in detail how Landsat 8 conducts its lunar scan.
May 2014
National Land Cover Database 2011 on YouTube
Learn more about the National Land Cover Database 2011 (NLCD 2011) from Dr. Collin Homer, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In a YouTube video presentation, Homer describes the status, future plans, and applications examples of NLCD 2011. The presentation clearly describes NLCD's flagship products: land cover, canopy, and imperviousness. Homer emphasizes that NLCD is valuable because it is consistent and relevant. Its national coverage also supports many different applications: fire, urban development, insect damage, mining, and more. Find out what Homer means by "30 billion pixels served" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GekyUrZoYys.
New Teaching Resource for Remote Sensing
The Tracking Change Over Time lesson is intended for students in grades 5–8. It enhances students' learning of geography, earth science, and problem solving by seeing landscape changes from space. The lesson plan includes an introduction to satellite images, an introduction to remote sensing, instructions on how to use the free software MultiSpec, and modules that go deeper into specific areas of remote sensing application.
In the latest module, "River Flooding", students discover how a flood in June 2008 affected southern Indiana and Illinois. The module takes a problem-based approach to show students how satellite images can be used to analyze the changes that a flood causes. The images used in the lesson, along with supplementary materials, are also available at http://eros.usgs.gov/educational-activities.
April 2014
Landsat 7 Marks 15 Years of Observing Earth
For the past 15 years Landsat 7, launched on April 15, 1999, has continued the legacy of Earth observations started by the Landsat program in 1972. Landsat 7's remarkable longevity has been vital to the majority of Landsat data users who require frequent imaging of specific areas for land and resource management. Today, Landsat 7, working in tandem with Landsat 8, continues to provide a continuous, unbiased record of change across the earth land surface.
For more information about Landsat 7's first 15 years, please see the USGS Press Release.


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Brother MFC-J6510DW Professional Series Inkjet All-in-One with up to 11" x 17" (Ledger Size) Duplex Printing
|Print, copy scan and fax up to 11" x 17" (Ledger Size) for added impact. Print two-sided color documents up to 11" x 17" in-house. Easy to setup wireless (802.11b/g/n) or wired Ethernet network with embedded web management. Fax, copy or scan with the up to 35-page automatic document feeder. Uses Super High Yield (XXL series) replacement ink cartridges (approximately 2,400 pages black and 1,200 pages color.
Customer Reviews of Brother MFC-J6510DW Professional Series Inkjet All-in-One with up to 11" x 17" (Ledger Size) Duplex Printing
Brother 6510 was amazing for the price.7/3/2013
Very easy to set up but having trouble with the wireless connection. Windows 7 can not find it. Oh well, ran a cable to it and all is well. I'm sure I'll figure the wireless part out later.
Great 11 x 17 printer7/2/2013
Impressive machine. I haven't used it much yet, but I did scan some photos and did a little printing. Everything works well, with the only negative being the lackluster color printing (just looks kind of faded). I'm probably not going to print that much in color, so for the price I'm very satisfied with this machine.


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Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Conference
The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation offers free admission and financial support for travel to students interested in attending one of its conferences. This fall, there are two opportunities available: a conference on International Energy and Minerals Arbitration http://www.rmmlf.org/confrnce/ARB2news.pdf and Renewable Electric Energy Law and Developmenthttp://www.rmmlf.org/confrnce/REEnews.pdf. If you are interested in attending one of these conferences, you must obtain a recommendation from Professor Smith, Professor John Dzienkowski, or Professor Melinda Taylor.


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Koehler helps Marlins beat Nationals 8-0 for 4th win in row
Latos has best outing of year to help Marlins top Nats 3-2
Nats clinch NL home-field edge, split with Marlins
LaRoche hits 2-run homer, Nats beat Marlins 3-2 (Video highlights)
Gonzalez, Harper lead Nationals past Marlins, 6-2 (Video highlights)
Alvarez, Marlins beat Nats for 6th straight win
Marlins score 4 in 9th to beat Nationals 7-6
Washington Nationals: Harper HR lifts Nationals over Marlins 3-2
Bryce Harper hit a three-run homer in the first to back an effective pitching performance by Gio Gonzalez, and the Nats beat the Marlins 3-2 to keep alive their slim hope of reaching the playoffs.
Washington Nationals beat Miami Marlins, 6-4
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Hakstol did say he thinks polls are a good thing for generating conversation among fans, but he said it doesn't change their preparation and that the team hasn't talked about it at all this week.
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...what do you think of it? I like the vast majority of this game. I love the world and the characters. I love the Game of Thrones-esque atmosphere. But the game is just...well, fine. I was a little disappointed. I had heard so much about this game and how amazing it was I had pretty high expectations. But it didn't feel warranted. Everything gameplay-wise is just fine. It all looks really good. If you want to play a solid, good RPG then this game fits that perfectly. But it doesn't go above and beyond other games this generation like I expected. Plus it ends so poorly. The final act showed such poor level design and just felt lazy and forced. I don't know. It's a good game but I don't understand those that put it in their GOTY lists last year..
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Kathryn Lacey asked an interesting question recently. "How many of your teachers can you remember?" she wondered. "Can you make a list naming them?"
Lacey, who is decades removed from her own education, remembers every one of her teachers. "That's because they were important people in my life," she said. "I bet you remember most of your teachers, too."
Lacey was so influenced by her teachers that she became one. Now retired, she taught at Moriah Central School.
Can you name teachers from your school days? Probably so. Lacey is right. Teachers have played and still do play important roles in our lives.
We should keep that in mind as school districts prepare 2012-13 budgets.
In recent years, as school taxes have increased, teachers have become an easy target of frustrated, angry people caught in a squeeze between stagnant incomes and a growing cost of living.
It's not right to blame teachers for the problems of a national recession.
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In the past few years virtually every teacher union in the North Country has made concessions — pay cuts, pay freezes, increased health insurance costs, longer hours, additional workloads and more.
And despite those concessions, teachers have still lost their jobs. Schools across New York have lost a total of 30,000 educator positions in the last three years, nearly 14 percent of the teaching workforce, according to the state education department. Last spring more than 7,000 teachers were laid off in New York and another 4,000 teaching positions went unfilled.
The number of out-of-work teachers is certain to grow as school boards work to meet the new 2 percent tax cap this spring.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed an $800 million increase in state aid to education this year. That's an improvement from last year, but little of that money is expected to reach the North Country.
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Hall of Famer Larry Brown has emerged as the leading candidate for the vacant head coaching position at Southern Methodist University, The Dallas Morning News reported. The 71-year-old met with university officials at the Dallas school over the weekend, telling the paper Monday that the visit went "great" and was "more than I ever imagined." According to Yahoo! Sports, the sides are so far along that Brown has already started reaching out to potential assistant coaches. Kentucky coach John Calipari, an assistant under Brown at Kansas in the 1980s, is reportedly helping in the process, along with William Wesley, a top agent for Creative Arts Agency. Kentucky assistant coach Rod Strickland is seen as a possible candidate to serve on Brown's staff if a deal is completed. Brown last coached in the NBA with the Charlotte Bobcats in 2010, and has not coached in college since 1988, when he guided Kansas to the national title. He then moved on to coach seven NBA teams over the next two...
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MOUNT PLEASANT - Town council voted down Tuesday an indoor shooting range in a shopping center with family-oriented businesses and adjacent to a neighborhood pool.
Palmetto State Armory wanted to open a retail store selling fishing and hunting gear including firearms in the vacant former Food Lion anchor at National Crossing Shopping Center. Plans for the store included the indoor shooting range,
However, business owners in the shopping center at the entrance of Charleston National said the range would pose safety, noise and traffic problems.
Several residents who support bringing an indoor shooting range to Mount Pleasant said it would be better suited to a building zoned light industrial. The shooting range is not a permitted use of the now-vacant storefront.
Charleston National resident Bill Farley, a member of the National Rifle Association, said the issue is proximity to a residential area.
"I am very much in favor of a shooting range in East Cooper," Farley said. "But not in this location."
Resident Steve Wakeford called it "ill thought out placement."
The shopping center is home to a dance studio, karate school, church, veterinarian and other businesses and is adjacent to the neighborhood's pool. School buses drop off students in the parking lot.
Palmetto State Armory is a growing company that does more than $120 million in gross sales. It operates three state-of-the-art shooting ranges statewide that exceed safety requirements, co-owner Julian Wilson said at last week's council planning committee.
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