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For Blue Agave, Cinco de Mayo celebrations aren't limited to one day.
The popular Mexican restaurant on South Church Street has planned three days worth of festivities.
A DJ will be on-hand to get patrons up and dancing on Friday, followed by a live band on Saturday.
But the real fun is on Sunday, May 6, with a Mariachi band and free pony rides. The weekend will conclude with a pony giveaway.
Blue Agave invites its fans to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and its one-year celebration. For information, call 615-624-6478 or visit the restaurant at 1935 S. Church St. in Murfreesboro.Meet Munchak at Kroger this week
Stop by Kroger on Memorial Boulevard Friday evening for a chance to meet Titans Head Coach and Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Munchak.
The Titans Caravan will visit the Murfreesboro Kroger at 2325 Memorial Blvd. at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 4, where Munchak will sign autographs and greet fans. Titans Mascot T-RAC and the voice of the Titans Mike Keith will also be on-hand.
"We hope everyone will come out and join us for this fun event on Friday," store manager Rick Parker said. "We want the Titans to remember Murfreesboro as one of the best stops on this year's Caravan schedule."
This is the 14th year for the Caravan, according to a press release. This year, 50 stops in 11 days are planned for the Tennessee, Alabama and Southern Kentucky tour, which began Monday. Kroger will host seven of this year's stops as the Official Grocery Sponsor of the Tennessee Titans and the Caravan.
Yellow Llama holds grand opening
Yellow Llama recently debuted its revolutionary, hybrid business model at The Avenue Murfreesboro.
The new addition offers artists, nonprofit organizations and small businesses an affordable marketing, promotional and revenue resources historically available only to larger established organizations, according to a company press release.
"Yellow Llama is an online community originally created for visual artists to market, display, share and sell their custom designs on T-shirts, apparel, bags, wall canvases and other products," the release states. "The company has expanded (its) reach to provide digital direct to garment printing, web development, fundraising tools and Make-A-T-Shirt Birthday parties."
Company President Milo Pinckney said, "We are thrilled to contribute to the areas employment while expanding our brands presence into the Murfreesboro market, where artists, schools, companies and the community can utilize our services and share their art."
"We invite you to meet our unbelievable talented crew and make Yellow Llama your ultimate shopping destination for your creative and custom shirt and apparel ideas."
Established in 2009 in Atlanta, Yellow Llama has established relationships with cultural art agencies from seven countries and also assists artists and other groups around the world.
"The Yellow Llama project is not unique by default of its existence, or even what kind of products it offers for sale, what makes Yellow Llama special, is it's unique methodology, but most of all, it's the extraordinary collection of professionals from varying specialties, skills, users and people," the press release continues.
"Yellow Llama believes that every artist should be able to live on and off of their individual artistic work product. They believe that self-expression, fortified by collective effort is the fuel that powers community growth," the release states. "The Yellow Llama team continues to develop creative solutions that empower creative people to turn their artistic expressions into meaningful money and to transform their own creative passions into true and productive livelihoods."
For more on Yellow Llama, visit www.yellowllama.com or call the Murfreesboro location at 615-896-8800.
MTSU to hold seminar on business
MTSU's Small Business Development Center, in conjunction with the Small Business Administration, will conduct a free seminar on "Starting your own Business" from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8, at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce, located at 3050 Medical Center Parkway in Murfreesboro.
"The purpose of this seminar is to provide individuals interested in starting a business a broad overview of the many things they will be confronted with in doing so," a press release states. "It will introduce attendees to the Tennessee Small Business Development Center, the services available, and how it can assist in the development of their business venture."
Additionally, sources for information gathering, research and databases available are also discussed. This seminar is intended for persons who have never been in business.
There is no charge to attend the seminar, or for one-to-one counseling which is available, by appointment, after attending the seminar.
Reservations are required and available on-line at www.tsbdc.org or by calling 615-898-2745.
Please arrive and sign in 10 minutes prior to the startup of the seminar.
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A sick poll asking whether President Obama should be killed (the choices were "Yes", "No", "Maybe," and "If he cuts my health care…") and the whole polling app, has been pulled by Facebook, and according to CBS, the user banished from Facebook. The
Huffpo Political Carnival scored this screen grab:
But should Facebook also turn over the name of the poll creator to the Secret Service? It's a tough call. The person who did it is likely not a dangerous nut; probably just your average Obama-hating teabagger, unleashed, as so many of them are, by the anonymity of the Internet to share something stupid with their pretend, online friends. But in an age where there really are armed nuts out there convening online, empowering themselves with the notion that they're not alone after all — that other people hate "the government" and the president (or whoever) as much as they do, and with wingers arming themselves to the teeth out of an irrational fear that the black helicopters are coming, you really can't be too careful.
BTW, can you imagine the uproar that would have occurred in the Orwellian aftermath of 9/11 if such a poll had been posted about George Bush, when people were being detained just for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts? First Amendment buh-bye. And the winger blogosphere would have labeled anyone who didn't agree a traitor.
Meanwhile, the poll, which Pam Spaulding dubs the "social media assassination poll," apparently went up late Sundday evening. RawStory adds this:
As of noon Monday, 90 percent of respondents had said "no." Just over five percent said yes, 2.6 percent said maybe, and 1.9 percent said "if he cuts my health care."
Blogger GottaLaff at The Political Carnival says she has notified the Secret Service of the poll.
"No, it is not 'grassroots,' not even close. It is a sick, terrifying, dangerous movement toward violence and the worst kind of civil unrest," she blogged.
Meanwhile, a counter-poll, "should the creator of the 'should Obama be killed' poll be arrested" had a brief and erstwhile life of its own.
UPDATE: The Plumline reports the Secret Service is investigating, after being notified by the blogger at Political Carnival. And from CNET's Chris Matyszczyk:
Facebook's Barry Schnitt told me in an e-mail that while the site doesn't comment on actions against individual users, "penalties for posting content in violation of our policies range from warnings to temporarily or permanently disabling accounts." He also confirmed that the site is working with the Secret Service but couldn't provide any details of their investigation.
As to the source of the poll, he said: "The third-party application that enabled an individual user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning (Monday). It was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content."
UPDATE 2: The Political Carnival's "Gottalaff" gets a thank you call from the Secret Service. Nice work, Laff.
The wingers meanwhile, are curiously silent on this story… except for the Feepers, who clearly don't trust their own members to comment without saying something violent, racist, stupid or all of the above… they've locked the thread, but not before one of them asked:
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Did we Freep that poll?4 posted on Mon Sep 28 16:23:02 2009 by Commander X (Hey Barry, what are you hiding?)[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]
The Freeps did, however, leave up the thread where wingers try to convince themselves that the poll was actually a dastardly case of liberal misdirection... (they didn't put it that way, of course, because they don't speak with that kind of complexity. In Freeperese, it would be "I'll bet it was put up by a lib."

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Dendritic Spine Protein Interactions and Neuropathology
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterized by cognitive impairments, delusions, and psychosis. Several genes have been linked to schizophrenia susceptibility, notably including DISC1, neuregulin, ErbB4, dysbindin, and NUDEL. Some of these proteins are involved in cytoskeletal functioning and may play an important role in developing or maintaining dendrites and synapses. A clearer understanding of the mechanisms through which they interact, under normal and disease conditions, could help clarify the pathology of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other neurodegenerative diseases.


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The HRIBF Program Advisory Committee met at
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radioactive ion beams (RIBs) and 106 shifts of stable beams (SIBs) were assigned to the eleven proposals that were accepted. The
attached table summarizes the experimental projects given beam time.
RIB-001 - Study of the Doubly-Odd T=0 Nucleus 66As
RIB-002 - Low Energy Coulomb Excitation of 69As and 70As in Inverse Kinematics
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Rich Deformed Nuclei with Z~60 & Search for
RIB-005 - Identification of the Excited States in the Tz=+1/2 Nucleus 81Zr
RIB-006 - Study of Low-lying Transitions in 103Sn
RIB-007 - Identification of Excited States in the Odd-odd Self-conjugate Nucleus 70Br
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March 13, 2004
FORT WORTH, Texas - The New Mexico baseball team's game vs. TCU on Saturday afternoon was suspended due to rain. The game was called in the bottom of the third inning and will resume Sunday morning at 11 a.m. Sunday's regularly scheduled game will be played 30 minutes after the first game's completion, but will end by 6 p.m. due to UNM's flight departure at 7:45 p.m.
UNM will enter the suspended game with a 2-0 lead. In the top of the third, Jeff Grady hit a solo homer, his second of the season. Leadoff hitter Matt Young followed the homer with a triple, and then scored on a Matt Foote RBI single. It marked Foote's first career RBI at UNM.
Sunday's games can be followed live on the internet with Gametracker. The service is available on the right side of UNM's website, www.GoLobos.com, in the upcoming events box.


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How do I get my baby to take naps in his crib?
My baby is 4 months old and has been sleeping through the night in his crib for some time now. However, he will not sleep in his crib during the day. Naps are in my arms or in his swing. We follow a nap ritual and have tried all that we know.
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My son is 4 months old and has been getting "mixed signals" on naps since he was born, as my in-laws visited and let him nap on the couch (my fault for not being firmer.) Anyway, we have gotten back into a normal napping routine and as said before, I just watch for the cues and put him down. I have found consistent use of a vibrating soother under his mattress to help, and I also am consistent about turning on his mobile (with music) and darkening the room. Recently, I noticed that he takes comfort in holding a blanket too. If it's a consolation to anyone, he used to be the "sleep in my arms and wake up the second I put him down" type. He sometimes stirs for a few minutes. if he cries for more than 10 minutes, I go in and try to sooth him without picking him up, and then leave him again. You could try having him "self-soothe" in a bouncy chair as a start, so he can fall asleep with you near but not holding him. Once he's mastered that, then move onto the crib. Good Luck.posted 01/25/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
My 2 1/2 month old is just the same! He will not take daytime naps unless it is in my arms or in his rocker chair or in his car seat or laying on his playmat. Basically, anywhere except his crib. The moment you set him in it, he wakes right up and won't go back to sleep. Sometimes I think it is because of gas pains and that he is more comfortable upright or being distracted by toys. I usually just try to put him in his crib when he seems tired and if it takes him awhile and he's still awake, I'll let him sit on my lap until he falls asleep and then attempt to put him in his crib. I don't know how to make him sleep in his crib for naps, but all I can say is you're not the only one in this boat and that you really just have to do what you have to do to keep your baby happy. If he gets cranky without naps, I think it's best to just let your baby sleep where he is willing to sleep and you know he is safe. For my baby, it's the only time he will take a nap at all during the daytime.posted 10/28/2007 by TeReMe
here's what I do... I let my 1 yr. old take his naps in his swing. Who says the kid HAS to sleep in their crib during the day? I take naps in my husband's recliner; there's nothing wrong with him sleeping in his swing. He sleeps in his crib at night, but he's never liked sleeping there during the day. It's OKAY.posted 04/30/2010 by michaelsmom31
First read the Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg. Everything you need to know is in there. The important thing is to teach your baby how to self sooth. Letting your baby fall asleep in your arms is not doing him any favors. As much as I enjoyed holding my son when he was sleeping (yes, I did it occasionally), teaching him how to go to sleep on his own has paid off. My son is now a year old. We have bedtime rituals to let him know bedtime is coming. I watch him for cues that he's tired. He has some toys in his crib, but when he's going to bed the only one he's interested in is the musical aquarium. Most of the time, I'll kiss him, lay him down, and he'll turn over and go to sleep. Other times if he's overstimulated, he'll cry a little, but usually less than 2 minutes. Anyway, read that book. It's been out so long you can find it used lots of places.posted 10/30/2007 by MommyMilan
I finally realized he just has more burps during the day. When I put him down in the crib during the day for a nap, and he cries, I pick him up and almost everytime he has a burp...I then walk with him for a few minutes and put him back down - seems to do the trick. Just keep doing it consistently and the burps will go and they'll understand the routine. However, I think that's why people believe their babes like the car seat, bouncy, swing, etc - it's really just easier on the indigestion.posted 09/20/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
My baby is 1 yr old and STILL has trouble sleeping in her crib for naps! I have, believe it or not, resorted back to the lap. I can not seem to break through in this area. I have tried everything. Read books, talked to experts. OMG will she grow out of it? Probably by the time she's five years old LOL.posted 03/13/2009 by a BabyCenter Member
Wow it's good to know that I'm not alone in this. My 5 month old wakes up and cries every time I try to put him down for a nap in his crib. I've tried letting him cry it out. He cried through his entire nap for an hour every time. We did this for 5 days and saw no improvement so we gave up. I realize that these are old posts but did anybody ever find a solution?posted 12/15/2014 by NaomiCundiff
My baby is 8 months old and she takes two naps. One at 10 am and one around 2pm. I feed her before her nap and then breast feed her, which calms her down. She can be fussy in the beginning at times, but usually falls asleep within 5-10 minutes. Find out what relaxes your baby and try to do whatever that is before you put your baby down.posted 07/02/2014 by hollyhaag
My four month old is very similar ~ sound asleep in my arms and the moment I put her into her crib she's wide awake and will not fall asleep unless she is in my arms or in her wrap baby carrier. I've attempted putting her in her crib when she's awake and sleepy too ~ she'll play and then cry for me when she's finished. I'm torn between sleep training 'let her cry it out' methods versus just letting her sleep on me where she is guaranteed a solid nap. She would continue to cry 10+ minutes if I let her.. and then skip her nap. It's heard breaking.posted 12/27/2013 by mak14
No luck here either. There are days that she soothes herself, days that shell cry and then soothe herself and days where she doesnt sleep at all. The hardest part for me is transitioning her from my arms to the crib. Sometimes she will wake up and stay awake or go back to sleep. It's a toss up! Fortunately she sleep through the night though!posted 03/09/2011 by iheartbabyferry
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To the Matthew 25:35 Inc. organization and the many volunteers who worked to make the annual Run to the Ridge a success again this year. In addition to offering an entertainment outlet and draw for people to come to Mount Airy, the annual gathering raises thousands of dollars that provides meals to people who might otherwise go hungry. Last year the organization raised $15,000, which supplied nearly 90,000 meals, and this year's event looked to be just as big.
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To the North Carolina General Assembly for scrapping the tax-free weekend. Those taking advantage of this weekend, when the sales tax is waived on certain items needed for students' return to school, should enjoy it this year because the state government has decided North Carolina families are no longer in need of help in equipping their kids for school. Then again, this should be no surprise — this government has shown it takes care of those with money and influence and really couldn't care less about the average state resident.


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T Shaw: Keeping Kleenex in business since Episode 1.
As the show opens, we see both T Shaw and Nicole, and (separately) Tyler and Shea talk about how making it this far means that they've won the show either way, no matter who gets the money. Good thing this isn't Liar Academy, or this show would have just spontaneously combusted.
Trina unveils a cage that will be used for the final therapy session.
This cage is supposed to represent the guys' fears of being trapped inside a relationship. And then, they get inside their fears…
…thus turning themselves inside out, if we're to believe the visual metaphor. This is perhaps the most theatrical therapy session this show has ever presented. It's theatripy. Anyway, Terry talks about the fact that he keeps Nicole away from his friends. They live separate lives, except that unlike whomever Phil Collins sings to, Nicole does have a right to ask him how he feels, since, duh: this is therapy. It, in fact, behooves everyone to speak so kind. Sorry to go on: it's just so crazy when you realize that life is not a Phil Collins song.
Also: I forgot all about this problem of theirs. I guess repeated infidelity has a way of dwarfing things. I'll just assume in good faith that he's been working on this issue diligently since we last saw it mentioned. Trina encourages T Shaw to get out his frustration and so he rants a little…
He doesn't want to be trapped in a horrible relationship, and he doesn't want to be afraid to love Nicole. He ends up apologizing for not committing more before.
Tyler takes the opportunity to use the cage as a vertical set of monkey bars…
…which seems appropriate, considering the level of civilization in these parts. His catharsis goes: "Get off my back! Leave me alone! When I'm ready to get married, I'll get married!" Great! At least we know where he stands. The whole freaking show could have ended here, but that would have left, like 50 minutes of dead air, so we press on.
The challenge finds the couples having to clean an extremely dirty minivan…
…these are supposed to represent their futures as couples. All this symbolism! But it makes sense because, after all, what is a minivan but a cage on wheels? Anyway, the couples must do this (somewhat predictably) tethered together…
Nicole and T Shaw end up bickering a little, but he resolves to take some time out so that things don't escalate.
Tyler kind of drags Shea around, but it ends up working for them, as they win the challenge.
At their victory dinner…
…Tyler apologizes for yanking Shea around during the challenge. For every action there is an apology on this show. They don't call it Apology Academy for nothing.
Oh, and then some dude with a violin comes out and they dance…
…and it's weird and kind of awkward, but she cries anyway, since this show is also called Tears Academy.
Meanwhile, back at the Academy, Nicole asks T Shaw to get rid of his porn…
…because it makes her feel insecure. I don't know, a little insecurity is a small price for staving off another man's misery. But whatever — it's their minivan-driven future, not mine.
The final showdown arrives…
Helping Trina and Jordan are some old faces:
Tyler points out Charm's "I (Heart) Charm" shirt and Charm says, "Thank you, I love myself." Well, that makes one of us! These guys, being tools, seriously add nothing and are gone within three minutes, though not before Charm can refer to T Shaw as "T Shawn," and ask Tyler, "You feel like you could beat my ass still?" He's supposed to be asking Tyler questions about his relationship, and once again, Charm finds a way to make it about him. Great. So glad we were able to share this last bit of time together.
Trina asks T Shaw how he's changed. He says he's different. He was afraid to be fully committed. He went deep with this therapy. Tool Academy yanked out his fears and put them on the table (not to mention his porn stash). That said, Nicole is the only girl that he wants.
She asks Tyler how his outlook on commitment has changed. He used to just be worried about himself. He thought therapy was a joke, but now he feels more committed. He's falling in love with Shea again. The guys are then shuttled to a jewelry store to pick out engagement rings — the winner will get not only $100,000, but a ring for his girl, should he choose to use it. T Shaw has never looked at an engagement ring before in his life. Indeed, they are rare — they're the unicorns of the tool world.
Then, it's time to graduate.
Trina's concern regarding Tyler is that being in love is something that should come naturally — it isn't something you should have to work on. Ideals, ideals. T Shaw has progressed, but can he maintain commitment once Tool Academy is over? He'll get the chance to find out because, despite him being "not that much of a tool anymore," Tyler is not graduating.
He tells Shea that he wants to make it work with her. He asks that she trust that he's in love with her and that his old ways are done. Of course, she gets in the car with him and the last thing we hear her say as he begs to give her back her promise rings again is, "Let's go home and see how things go." That's the most reasonable thing anyone's said all season. Even without the money, you win, Shea. The prophecy comes true.
…victory gives T Shaw the excuse to cry again. I think he might have a nine-episode streak of tears, but I'm not going to check because this show is OVER. Still, few would deny that T Shaw is impressively sensitive. But this is a joyous occasion. It's not everyday that you become the second person ever to graduate from Tool Academy!
As the ANTM finale music plays, T Shaw rushes out to see Nicole. They share an exchange that goes:
T Shaw: I graduated!
Nicole: Tell me what happened!
T Shaw: I graduated!
OK, so it isn't Vocabulary Academy. But it is, for this lucky couple, Engagement Academy:
She says yes, of course.
To a porn-free future!
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After installing version 295.40 of nvidia driver on a Sun Ultra 27 with Quadro FX 380 graphics card, the X server fails with the following messages:
$ tail -25 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
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(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(++) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView" "1"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
(**) Apr 13 14:32:42 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
(EE) Apr 13 14:32:54 NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA kernel module does not appear to be receiving
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(EE) Apr 13 14:32:54 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
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Fatal server error:
no screens found
This happens after the first log out. That is, X starts when the system is first booted and a user can log into GUI and use it all day. But once the user logs out, X fails and only a console log in is possible. Has anyone else seen this? Is there any workaround other than installing an older version of the nvidia driver? Thanks.
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Eric Cochran Wins $25,000 Milken Award
November 2, 2011
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Lindbergh social studies teacher, Eric Cochran, is the recipient of the Milken Educator Award. Cochran was surprised in a schoolwide asembly, attended by the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, Chris Nicastro, as well as representatives from the Missouri Congress.
The Milken Award has no formal application process. An independent blue ribbon committee, appointed by the state's department of education, recommends candidates and final selections come from the Milken Family Foundation.
Receipients of the award demonstrate "exceptional educational talent" and have shown "exemplary educational accomplishments beyond the classroom." The Milken award is restricted to early-to mid-career educators who "offer strong long-range potential for professional and policy leadership."
Along with the award comes an unrestricted $25,000.
Although this assembly has been planned for several weeks, Lindbergh students and faculty members were kept in the dark as to the details. Teachers were told to bring their classes to the assembly for a "special announcement."
Cochran was greeted to a loud applause from everyone in attendance. He looked visibly shocked and surprised.
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blujay responded on 10/30/12 09:35 AM:Other ratings here might be legitimate, but this is just a straw-man written by some child.
blujay responded on 12/05/11 08:36 PM:this guy hates MLP:FiM that much.
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blujay responded on 12/05/11 08:37 PM:WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? Seriously, what does this mean.
Quote:I have no sympathy for alcoholics. I view them as weak, and pity them. Only the better that such predispositions escape the gene pool... The thing about them is, even those with a high propensity for addictive traits escape their vices through willpower and intellect regularly...
Quote:You just want to sabotage that kid that can't quite play guitar well enough but for the love of god WHY WONT YOU STOP STRUMMING LIKE AN IDIOT IN THE CAFETERIA...But really, that would be so fucking funny, to screw a music major in the ass with a drug that makes them tone deaf. Dose them right before their "finals" hahah I am such an asshole.
Quote:blujay said:I always assumed this was why we don't see Jesus until he's 30- he was probably just a little cunt like everybody else, lol/.
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Beyonce and her new bundle of joy, Blue Ivy Carter, stepped out yesterday (March 12) in New York City, and we couldn't help but notice just how thin the new mom looks!
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Temperature: -1°C
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Lucy and I are currently onsite at Captain Scott's 1910 expedition base at Cape Evans where we are working alongside conservation carpenters Gord, Gene and Martin and programme manager Al.
A large part of this season's work programme is carrying out structural repairs to the stables and latrine area which have been previously damaged due to extreme snow loading.
This has meant emptying the space of all objects to allow unrestricted access to floors, walls and roof. One of the larger objects needing temporary removal was a small stove which would have been fuelled by seal blubber and used by Captain Oates and the others to cook mash for the ponies and pemmican for the dogs.
The stove was resting on the top of a fire-pit; an area distinguished by the arrangement of house bricks into a low wall, and containing a heap of scoria (small pebbles of volcanic rock which surrounds the area), ash, stove parts and associated material. This again had to be carefully deconstructed and moved - a simple enough task until you add ice into the equation!
The stove itself was relatively straightforward to lift out, but the stove base and other parts were firmly welded into frozen scoria. With the aid of melting hoses this was thawed, and Lucy was able to excavate the buried sections.
I then had the task of conserving the parts. Both the stove and its base were in poor condition. It would seem that corrosion had already set in while the stove was still in use, meaning that each time the metal was heated, the corrosion crust got harder. Rust usually forms in layers that are relatively easy to scrape away from the surface, but the resulting deterioration in this instance was a corrosion formation more deeply penetrated, like barnacles on a rock.
As I was chipping away at some collected debris in the recessed trough at the bottom of the vessel, I noticed a distinct colour variation. I presumed I had found some droplets of metal ore, and therefore evidence of metalwork being done on the stove. I was somewhat embarrassed when I explained my 'find' to project manager Al, who picked up a piece of scoria from the ground and proceeded to scrub at it, producing the same gold colour! I had previously had no idea that the volcanic stones had metallic properties.
Conserving the stove base was a whole other story! The hardened corrosion and subsequent uneven surface was much the same; the problem here was blubber! Seal blubber had obviously been used as fuel and the whole lower section was caked in encrusted fat. There was even a house brick wedged between the front two legs, held fast by the built up blubber. This meant that the conservation needed to be done as quickly as possible, as the thermal hoses and summer sun were melting the external layers of blubber, turning it into a runny gooey mess with the consistency of tar, (and not the most pleasant smell either!).
Once treated the stove base proved to be a real gem. The iron legs are highly decorative with scrolled casting and claw feet that couldn't be seen previously under the compacted blubber layers. The standard of the craftsmanship of such a utilitarian object as a stove base being yet another example of the quality of many of the items the explorers brought with them.
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I didn't know volcanic stones had metallic properties either. It sounds like a lovely stove, without the old blubber. The British Library have put a new virtual book online, extracts from the 1911 Antarctice expedition.


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Translating football fame into academic excellence
To quote the lead, the Ducks' football superiority is "burnishing the UO brand and boosting revenue, recruitment and status."
All of which triggers one of my favorite questions: Is there intelligent life on Earth?
What, pray tell, is the link between a school's football success and its academic excellence and educational status?
The story quotes University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere as saying that applications to the university have risen sharply because of the media attention given the Ducks' team.
Out-of-state applications are up 30 percent. In-state applications have grown 20 percent.
No fool he, Lariviere also tells the reporter that the high-profile team "gives us an opportunity to showcase what is really important to us, which is the educational mission. We are working very hard to translate this attention into awareness of what we do here."
I don't know about you, but my raw-boned interest in the Duck's team has zero connection to numbers of Nobel Laureates, US News rankings, tuition costs, tenured faculty, student-faculty ratios, and graduation rates.
Yet presumably those are the very qualities Lariviere would like the "translation" to lead to. (If you do manage to make the translation, alas, UO doesn't translate all that well in academics. But that's another subject.)
I suggest the president consider exactly whom he is asking to make the translation.
In short, who are these applicants who suddenly want to attend UO because of the football frenzy in Eugene?
Could they be someone like Potential Future Duck over there. He's in medialand, submerged up to his belt line on the sofa, beer or sugary beverage in hand, nachos within reach. He's deep into Duckmania. The game and the Ducks glow on the screen.
"Wow, did you see that sack (or catch or run or touchdown)? Check out those cheerleaders!! I'm applying to the University of Oregon!"
I don't know what kind of "translation" Potential Future Duck is doing, but I don't think it is the one Lariviere has in mind.
I hope there's a question on UO's application form that asks: "Are you applying to the university because of the success of the Ducks' football team?"
The forms of applicants answering "Yes! Go Ducks!" (or words to that effect) go to the bottom of the pile.
Now THAT could translate into academic excellence.
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In 2004, State Assemblyperson Judy Chu (D–Monterey Park, CA) fired the first bullets at the cosmetics industry by introducing a bill in California to ban certain ingredients from all cosmetics sold in the state. Known as Assembly Bill (AB) 2025, it followed the European Union's (EU) direction to ban cosmetics containing anything on Annex II of the EU Cosmetic Directive. This bill was changed five times before it was passed by the State Senate; however, it was subsequently defeated by a single vote in the Assembly.
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The bill was passed and signed into law by the governor in 2005, which was a major victory for anti-cosmetic forces. The state was then prompted to draw up a list of chemicals whose use in cosmetics or in fragrances used therein would trigger notification to the state. In this author's view, the state drew up the list not by using common sense but by taking the easy way and listing all the chemicals on California's Proposition 65 list and anything on any other cited bodies' list, regardless of whether or not they are used in cosmetics. When the state finally published its list in 2008, it included 783 chemicals, of which less than 20 have ever been used in cosmetics. The only chemicals on the list that are important to the cosmetics industry are titanium dioxide, Black 2, cocamide DEA, and retinol and its esters.
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One scene I have yet to see commented on in this vein is that in Foreign Correspondent in which Edmund Gwenn's cheerful but sinister character takes Joel McCrea to the top of London's Byzantine-style Westminster Cathedral, from which he intends to dispose of him. As they are about to ascend the tower, we hear through the open door of the church a choral rendition of the haunting Dies Irae from the older version of the Requiem Mass, a tune that has found its way into numerous musical compositions over the centuries. The allusion to impending death is obvious here, as is Hitch's debt to his Catholic upbringing and education, though it would almost certainly be lost on non-Catholic audiences.


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Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized President Obama's remarks regarding JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Obama's remarks were supportive.
President Obama on Monday said that the $2 billion lost by JPMorgan Chase in an investment bet gone wrong underscored the necessity of the financial-sector reform law he signed two years ago.
In an interview forThe View taped on Monday just hours after a JPMorgan Chase Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew announced her retirement, Obama held up the law, known as Dodd-Frank financial reform, as designed to curtail such losses, according to ABC. And he defended JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who has been shelled by Democrats in the wake of last week's revelation.
"JPMorgan is one of the best managed banks there is. Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we got and they still lost $2 billion and counting," Obama said in the spot, which will be aired on Tuesday morning. "We don't know all the details. It's going to be investigated, but this is why we passed Wall Street Reform."
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The committee found that the number of projects abandoned or delayed as a result of technology access difficulties is reported to be small, as is the number of occasions in which investigators revise their protocols to avoid intellectual property complications or pay high costs to obtain access to intellectual property. Thus, for the time being, it appears that access to patents or information inputs into biomedical research rarely imposes a significant burden for academic biomedical researchers. However, for a number of reasons, the committee concluded that the patent landscape, which already is burgeoning in areas such as gene expression and protein-protein interactions, could become considerably more complex and burdensome over time.
There are reasons to be concerned about the future. First, the lack of substantial evidence for a patent thicket or a patent blocking problem clearly is linked to a general lack of awareness or concern among academic investigators about existing intellectual property. That could change dramatically and possibly even abruptly in two circumstances. Institutions, aware that they enjoy no protection from legal liability, may become more concerned about their potential patent infringement liability and take more active steps to raise researchers' awareness or even to try to regulate their behavior. The latter could be both burdensome on research and largely ineffective because of researchers' autonomy and their ignorance or at best uncertainty about what intellectual property applies in what circumstances. Alternatively, patent holders, equally aware that universities are not shielded from liability by a research exception, could take more active steps to assert their patents against them. This may not lead to more patent suits against universities—indeed, established companies are usually reluctant to pursue litigation against research universities—but it could involve more demands for licensing fees, grant-back rights, and other terms that are burdensome to research. Certainly, some holders of gene-based diagnostic patents are currently active in asserting their intellectual property rights. Even if neither of these scenarios materializes, researchers and institutions that unknowingly and with impunity infringe on others' intellectual property could later encounter difficulties in commercializing their inventions.
Finally, as scientists increasingly use the high-throughput tools of genomics and proteomics to study the properties of many genes or proteins simultaneously, the burden on the investigator to obtain rights to the intellectual property covering these genes or proteins could become insupportable, depending on how broad the scope of claims is and how patent holders respond to potential infringers. The large number of issued and pending patents relating to gene-expression profiling and protein-protein interactions contributes to this concern.
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If the earth isn't effected by some fluke random event and just allowed to spin for as long as it likes then after several billion years it'll get eaten by the sun.
course before that it'll be flung out of orbit and spent spinning into the void in a massive billion year eliptical journey but assuming nothing gets in its way during that period then yeah. it'll get eaten by the sun.
The other case if the sun's nuclesr fuel will be exsausted then life automatically will end ,no light ,no life !!!No matter how advanced techologically we are ,plus the fact that would be roamin to the space for ever!!!!


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2005 Iraqi army troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, captured three insurgents Nov. 22 in Baghdad, military officials reported.
Officials said the military-aged suspects were apprehended after they threw a CD containing sniper video footage from their vehicle at a traffic-control point and tried to turn around and get away. Iraqi troops questioned the three men, who admitted attacking coalition forces in Baghdad, Fallujah and Najaf, officials said. The men and materials were taken into custody pending further investigation.
Elsewhere in Iraq, Iraqi troops from the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, discovered two roadside bombs Nov. 22 near Iskandariyah.
The first bomb consisted of a 130 mm round with a three-foot detonation cord. The second bomb was found in a pre-existing hole with wires protruding from a 152 mm round and two propane tanks. The bombs were neutralized, and no injuries or damages were reported.
Task Force Baghdad soldiers detained three suspected terrorists during an early-morning Nov. 22 raid in southern Baghdad. Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, also found multiple passports along with an 82 mm mortar round while searching the house of the terror suspects.
A large amount of money and weapons were found when a joint Iraqi and U.S. force launched an offensive against a terrorist hideout near Bayji, Iraq, officials said today.
More than 30 suspected terrorists and a large cache of money, weapons and material were captured during the joint operation, which was launched Nov. 21 under the name of Operation Old Baldy. Participants in the operation included soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, and "Rakkasans" from the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
An air-assault mission was launched on Bayji Island, a 10-square-kilometer landmass splitting the Tigris River north of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown. The island has served as an isolated hideout for terrorists and criminals in the past, officials said.
"Bayji Island was a previously untouched area, and we wanted to send a clear message to the insurgents: There is no safe haven" in the Rakkasan area of operations, said Lt. Col. Randy George, commander of Task Force Leader.
George said the soldiers swept onto the island before dawn Nov. 21 in UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade. Over the next 36 hours, the Iraqi and American soldiers conducted searches of the island, uncovering stores of enemy weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades and improvised-explosive-device-making material.
"This operation instilled confidence in our Iraqi counterparts, and served to further strengthen our partnership with the Iraqi Army," said George, referring to the Rakkasan partnership with 4th Iraqi Army Division soldiers.
In other news, nine terrorists were captured after a Nov. 22 roadside bomb attack near Balad that wounded a soldier from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. The nine men were detained after two of them tested positive for explosives residue. The bomb was made from a 155 mm artillery round and was hidden alongside the road. The wounded soldier was taken to a local military medical facility. No report was available on the soldier's condition.
About 200 Iraqi army soldiers and 250 U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team attached to the 2nd Marine Division kicked off Operation Lions Nov. 22 in the Tammim area of southern Ramadi, officials said.
Operation Lions follows Operations Panthers and Bruins, both of which were conducted in different parts of Ramadi. "These operations involved Iraqi army and coalition forces clearing sections of the city in order to disrupt the insurgency and set conditions for successful elections on Dec. 15," a spokesman said.
"Terrorists operating in Ramadi continue to try and influence the local Iraqi citizens through murder and intimidation tactics," the spokesman said. "Terrorists linked to the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi network in Ramadi have vowed to prevent the local citizens from participating in the democratic process and exercise their right to vote."
Since Nov. 16, Iraqi and U.S. forces have killed 32 insurgents and seized and destroyed four large weapon caches. The caches included surface-to-air-missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, numerous rockets, mortar rounds, artillery rounds, hand grenades, landmines, small arms, small-arms ammunition and various IED-making equipment.
"The Iraqi army has been the main effort in many of our operations," said Col. John L. Gronski, combat team commander. "They continue to exhibit professionalism and resolve in securing their country."
Also, 84 detainees were released today from internment facilities after having their cases reviewed by the Combined Review and Release Board, officials said.
The Iraqi-led board, which was established in August 2004, consists of nine members -- two members each from the Ministries of Human Rights, Justice and Interior, as well as three senior officers from the multinational forces.
To date, the board has reviewed the cases of more than 21,700 detainees, recommending more than 12,000 individuals for release, officials noted.
In the air war, coalition aircraft flew 42 close-air-support missions Nov. 22, including support to coalition troops, infrastructure protection, reconstruction activities and operations to deter and disrupt terrorist activities, officials said.
An Air Force Predator, an advanced-concept technology demonstration aircraft, provided close-air support to coalition troops in contact with insurgents near Hit.
Officials said 10 Air Force and Navy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew missions in support of operations in Iraq.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq, Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq, Task Force Baghdad, and U.S. Central Command Air Forces Forward news releases.)


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99% Ape: How evolution adds up, is a new book from the Natural History Museum published last week.
The book introduces the topic of evolution, and leading experts at The Open University explain this fundamental yet often complex subject, guiding the reader through the latest evidence.
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Charles Darwin was mocked for suggesting that humans have apes for ancestors, but every scientific advance in the study of life in the last 150 years has confirmed the reality of evolution.
Read the latest research about how new species evolve, uncover the flaws in 'intelligent design', find out what evolution has to say about psychology, the development of the human mind and morality, and how we are still evolving, in this new book.
With colour illustrations and clear diagrams throughout, 99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up is the ideal introduction to this fascinating subject.
99% Ape coincides with the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species in 2009.
A national programme of events that celebrates Charles Darwin's ideas and their impact, is taking place in the UK as part of Darwin200.


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Actualy Stoner was the top rookie on the Honda, but why do I waste my time telling you that as you wouldnt understand as Flossi had all the top machinery.
He couldnt ride and couldnt fix the Ducati. Stoner couldnt fix the Ducati but he sure as hell could ride it 200% better than Rossi and at least he put a big set of balls on the line trying the best he could.
He complained about front end problems when he crashed at unexpected moments, Rossi complained about front end problems when running mid pack.
Rossi did more moaning about the Ducati in 1 year than Casey did in 4 yrs and that was with results.
Casey beat 3 great riders while riding the Ducati and showed how a real man rides that bike....lol


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The American Norman Mailer
Some future literary historian will doubtless be able to name the precise moment at which the big change in American literature occurred, and to give the reasons why it occurred at all. When, and from what combination of causes, did ambitious young men cease trying to write the Great American Novel and set about trying to re-write the Great American Novel? To the 20's generation, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Walden, James's novels, The Red Badge of Courage were all inspirations of one or another kind and degree of intensity. By what historical process did the same works and writers become what they so often are to writers today: sacred ancestral presences, established rituals to be gone through again and again, challenges to greatness, often veritable models?
The tendency began, I suspect, among certain surviving members of the 20's generation itself—writers who had lived to see the closing of European horizons by fascism and war, to be affected at home by the nostalgic spirit of The Flowering of New England and the vast body of criticism and scholarship stemming from it. Faulkner was perhaps the chief of these. In "The Old Man" and "The Bear" such ancestral themes as the big hunt, the open boat, the River God, the primitive initiation assumed a ritualistic air, although there was enough of the original Faulkner in those tales to make them masterpieces of a kind. Similarly with Hemingway's belated contribution to the same tendency, The Old Man and the Sea, of which a French critic has observed that it is "classique, trop classique," while maintaining, as I do, that the story has enough of the "vrai Hemingway" in it to keep it alive. Indeed, such narratives represented a genuine mutation in the works of Faulkner and Hemingway, and they have become, in turn, an influence on the younger writers.
Norman Mailer is among the more intrepid and protean of these younger writers. He would not be caught dead, I imagine, in the act of venerating the past or anything else. By his own testimony, the contemporary he most admires and envies is not "the most perfect writer" among them, namely Truman Capote; nor is it Gore Vidal, who has the best "formal mind" and most highly developed critical capacities. It is that rank original, who conceivably has never read a classic, James Jones. In fact the book in which Mailer offers these and other evaluations, many of them less generous, of his contemporaries, is rank with his own passion for new experience and his ambition to write the great novel of the future. A big unruly book, bearing a title that stuffs the mouth with consonants, and containing materials that in their variety defy definition, Advertisements for Myself (Putnam, 532 pp., $5.00) is partly an anthology of Mailer's shorter writings (though with specimens of some of his novels), partly a series of commentaries on them and his career in general.
As his career so far has been somewhat spotty, and he knows it, the book is rich in evidence bearing on his disappointments. There is blame for the several publishers who, out of prudery or prejudice, refused to accept the moderately daring The Deer Park; for the reviewers who, when the book was finally brought out, failed to appreciate its merits, as other reviewers had slighted Barbary Shore, his earlier novel; for the public whose taste has been corrupted by prosperity, television, and other recent phenomena. There is also blame, candid and often penetrating, for Mailer's own part in the process: his sometimes aimless malingering; his giving of himself on occasion to large febrile projects which came to nothing; his repeated misjudgments of people, situations, and his own abilities. Advertisements for Myself is chaotic; its tone is uncertainly pitched between defiance and apology. So much is this the case that anyone can easily lay hands on its jugular, and many reviewers have done so and thought they severed it. But the condition of Norman Mailer's life and art is that his jugular remains exposed. With all its faults in view, Advertisements for Myself is a confessional document of considerable interest and an engrossing chronicle of the postwar literary life. It is also an extremely funny book, for Mailer's gifts as a humorist are among his most reliable gifts. The one thing that his candor and wit leave unmolested is his own heavy dependence on the literary past, on what has been done.
He once embarked, he tells us, on "an enormous eight-part novel" and still proposes to complete it in some fashion and at some length—"Will it be a thousand pages?" he asks himself. This projected work he describes as "a descendant of Moby Dick." But is American literature so familial an affair that a novelist must conceive of his books in this genealogical way? Professions of piety apart, how is the projected novel really related to Melville's novel? 7/8/2006Mailer remarks that The Deer Park was an outgrowth of his original project for a novel in eight parts—a black sheep of the white whale family, perhaps. Yet neither The Deer Park nor the fragments of the original project included in Advertisements shows any connection whatever with Moby Dick except one which seems to me unfortunate. "Call me Ishmael," Moby Dick begins, as no one needs to be reminded. And Mailer's "The Man Who Studied Yoga," which he says was to have served as "prologue to the early scheme," begins: "I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda."
This seems to me one of those conscious echoes which merely succeed in being wordier and shriller than the original. For the rest, the attraction of Moby Dick to Mailer, as a writer of future novels, seems to consist largely in its bulk, profundity, and prestige. It is to him, I should imagine, an image of literary power rather than a work to be admired, learned from perhaps, and then returned to its place of honor. And to judge by Advertisements, the literary past is all the weightier for him because it includes the achievements of Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, and others of their vintage, all of them together representing to him a massed accumulation of potency. How did he come to write his first published book, The Naked and the Dead a novel of army life in the late war? ". . . I may as well confess I had gone into the army with the idea that when I came out I would write the war novel of World War II." With this idea in mind he did serve in the army (proudly, as a rifleman) and he did produce, punctually, efficiently, and as if on demand, The Naked and the Dead. But what an idea, and what a phrase, "the war novel of World War II"! The war novel? To be sure, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and others of their time had used their varied experiences of World War I in the writing of a lot of enormously varied books. Not they, but later journalists and sociologists, lumped those books together in the misleading, the unreal, category of "war novels." And when the second war arrived, the same crowd created that demand for "the novel of World War II" which Mailer determined to meet.
Advertisements for Myself testifies to his constant preoccupation with those 20's writers, in their capacity not merely as war novelists but as symbols of literary prestige in general. Hemingway represents a special example and challenge to Mailer throughout Advertisements. He tells one story which, trivial as it looks, is actually significant of his relation to the muscular master. He once mailed to Hemingway, personally a stranger to him, an unsolicited copy of The Deer Park and presently got the package back from Havana unopened. As it happened, he was not too sorry to have the book returned, for he had written in it certain words which he now regretted. After some manful sparring in Hemingway's own vein, he had said that he was "deeply curious" to learn Hemingway's reaction to the book. That "deeply curious" had come to seem to him a false note.
Now, Mailer admits that the Cuban postal system, rather than Hemingway, may inadvertently have administered the seeming snub. Yet he includes the episode in Advertisements. And one can readily see why he does, just as one can see the point of other apparent irrelevancies and absurdities memorialized in the same volume; these contribute much to its truth and humor. The significance was that the Hemingway whom Mailer addressed was the wrong Hemingway. He was not the young Ernest who conscientiously created the Hemingway art and who, if he had survived, might have shown interest in a young artist like Norman Mailer. The Hemingway he addressed was the swaggering Papa of the later legend, who naturally wouldn't "know" Mailer.
No Olympians can ever have looked more Olympian to an outsider than Hemingway and the others have looked to Mailer. Faulkner, he tells us, recognized his existence only by ridiculing his extravagant claims for Negro sexuality. And Mailer, coming of literary age in the 40's when the older writers were already established, already moneyed, be-prized, widely translated and imitated, acquired a mixed feeling for them. His genuine appreciation of their work was laced with a strong sense of their material stature—their reputation, influence, position in the literary market place. One sees, too, that his disposition to regard them, and the literary past in general, in this light, arose not only from the fact of his coining of age at this formidable phase of their careers. He also came of age at a moment of rapidly growing prosperity and expanding culture in America, when similar rewards seemed to be within reach of himself and other aspiring young writers.
Hence, probably, the dreams of worldly power which, in the pages of Advertisements, give unmistakable signs of being conjoined to his legitimate literary ambitions. Unmistakable? He has been "running for President for years," he says, and applies the same phrase to James Jones. Such truculent admissions are evidently supposed to induce in the reader a state of amused shock. To me they represent a rather depressing confusion of purposes. Why, with a thousand-page novel to finish, does anyone want to be President, unless he fears that he will never finish the novel?
In his three novels to date, as in Advertisements for Myself, Mailer is often a formidably good writer. He also gives, beneath the bluster of Advertisements, an appealing account of himself as a person. Scattered throughout that book are wry tales of the predicaments in which he has landed while trying to sustain the life of a free spirit in an unfavorable age. No doubt he sees himself, in Norman Podhoretz's phrase, as "a battleground of history." Advertisements may, as Alfred Kazin affirms, resemble Fitzgerald's The Crackup in showing "how exciting, yet tragic, America can be for a gifted writer." But Mailer's battleground has at least these resemblances to a city playground: it is strenuous, competitive, gang-conscious, cruel, sporting, amusing. And though America is unquestionably exciting to Mailer, it is wonderful how little he ever allows it to become tragic. Indeed, his response to the excitement of it is intense enough to preclude his feeling "deeply" any tragedy in it. One of the advantages of Advertisements over his novels is that the sense of excitement and the laughter get full play here, unembarrassed by any need to write, or rewrite, the Great American Novel. America represents wonderful sport and adventure to Mailer; and they get better as America itself seems to him to grow more corrupt and menacing. Tom Sawyer scarcely relishes his grim games of life and death more thoroughly than Mailer does his experiences as soldier, revolutionary, Hipster, junkie, and associate of pimps and call-girls. And like a far more mature and engaging Tom Sawyer, he relishes "evil" in proportion as he himself is incorrigibly moral.
Or, at least, in proportion as he is preoccupied with "morale," a slightly different matter, I admit. In his well-known and brilliant essay "The White Negro" he formulates the cult and discipline of the Hipster, a charming but probably doomed phenomenon of recent years. He quite possibly over-formulates Hip, schematizes it, makes its ways and words merely antithetical to those of its enemy the Square, reduces it to a kind of cross between a game and a form of hygiene. Hip makes for a livelier vocabulary, a more stylish way of carrying oneself, more and better orgasms. Thanks to Hip, a bi-sexual Negro Mailer knows gets as much of a charge out of a certain chick as out of a battalion of Marines. There's a testimonial to Hip as conducing to fair play and a well-rounded life. Hip is good for you.
Something of this same two-way attitude toward experience seems to me to enter into Mailer's novels, helping to account for both their virtues and their shortcomings. On one of his sides he rejoices in that "appetite for life" which he admires in James Jones. Sheer experience, experience for its own sake, leads him on. And just as this makes him a comparative rarity among younger writers today, so it constitutes his living relation to the older American writers—his living one, that is, as distinguished from the relation by way of familial piety and emulation. But on another side he has an equal hunger for ideas, a hunger that is not so well satisfied by what he can produce in the way of intellectual nourishment. The various forms of enlightenment which the older writers brought to bear on their experience seem to have crystallized, for Mailer, into a vague, self-conscious sort of wisdom. This has sought to express itself in appropriate ideas, Marxist or Nietzschean (Hip has Nietzschean roots, as Norman Podhoretz implies) or Freudian. Of these the Freudian is Mailer's most pervasive source of ideas and images. It is astonishing how often in his novels an authoritative older person is engaged in trying to assist some younger, more amorphous person to maturity (Eitel, the movie director of The Deer Park, is eager to help his mistress "grow up," and Marion Faye, the glorified pimp of the same book, has a similar relation to his call-girls and junkie acquaintances.) But the Freudian ideas, like those of other derivation, often operate not to reinforce and clarify his experience but to embarrass and devitalize it. The author himself seems frequently to approach his material as the learner, the disciple, the patient, eager to grow up.
The result in his novels is, as I say, a sort of tug of war between his passion for experience and his felt need of enlightening ideas. And it is in The Deer Park, that survivor of what was to be his eight-part colossus, that Mailer's contradictions reach their maximum intensity. When Alfred Kazin calls The Deer Park a "somehow sick book," "peculiarly airless and closed," I feel obliged to assent even while rebelling against the J. Donald Adams-like adjectives. (The Deer Park brings out the old Adams in us all.) For this novel about the sex life, the political, social, and business problems of Hollywood personages gathered in a resort resembling (I gather) Palm Springs, is frequently paralyzed by its opposing intentions. The manners prevailing in this unpleasant pleasure resort are superbly observed. The conversation of Hollywood magnates is admirably comic. The routines of the call-girls form a weird dance-like pattern within the slowly moving narrative. In the rendering of such things Mailer's passion for experience is matched by his expert knowledge of what he writes about. How does it happen, then, that this panorama of iniquity is constantly threatening to turn into a waxworks display? For one thing, Mailer's trio of heroes, Eitel, Faye, and O'Shaugnessy, are too sententious and loquacious and self-conscious. In their frequent colloquies they constitute a sort of committee interminably "chewing on" (in committee jargon) the agenda of the day. And with much help from the author, by way of his often intrusive comments on the action, they just about chew the hell out of it. Literally, they all but convert the experience of modern corruption into something inert, dry, and abstract. Here is an encounter between Marion Faye the super-pimp and a young Mexican delinquent:
Marion had not seen him in a long time. Paco had been picked up in a robbery and had lived a term in state prison. The fact he dropped in like this after an absence of two years did not startle Faye. Such things were always happening to him.
"I hear you're peddling gash," said Paco, "you got some gash for me?"
It was weird. Paco was neurotic, Faye thought, a pimply dreamy kid, begging for dough. In his family his mother hounded Paco, he used to call her dirty names; in the clubhouse he would lie around for hours reading comic books; once he announced he wanted to go to the South Seas. Even at the age of seventeen, tears came into his eyes at a harsh word. And now he was a junkie, and he needed a fix. Sudden compassion for Paco burned Faye's eyelids. The poor slob of a pachuco.
As Faye is already well known to the reader at this nearly midway point of the novel, we do not need to be nudged by the author into realizing that he is unstartled, "such things were always happening to him." Nor does Faye's curiously psychiatric relation to the boy gain in convincingness by our being told flatly that "Paco was neurotic." (Surely an understatement!) Indeed Faye is not what he or Mailer thinks he is but a sentimentalist, with his (ouch!) "pimply dreamy kid" and his (Ouch!) eye-scalding "compassion."
In Advertisements for Myself there are many indications that Norman Mailer will pull out of his difficulties, which are in part the difficulties of other writers of his age and time. The achievements of the literary past inevitably acquire an excess of prestige by contrast with the present creative stalemate. And since the creative stalemate happens to coincide with a condition of unexampled economic prosperity, it is natural that writers should dream, not only of rewriting the American classics, but of running for President. With his essential humor, sanity, and (yes!) humility, Mailer seems to perceive much of this situation and to give promise of reconciling his appetite for life with his appetite for ideas. But a novel in perhaps a thousand pages? Raintree County approached that length, I believe, but Moby Dick, in my edition, runs to only 822.


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Carroll Announces Fine and Performing Arts Line-up
Release Date: 1/24/2008
Fine and performing arts are alive at Carroll Community College this spring. The college has announced an exciting line-up of performances and exhibits that bring out the artist in all of us.
"Promoting the Fine and Performing Arts is a major priority at Carroll Community College," said Dr. Faye Pappalardo, president of the college. "I strongly believe that the caliber and variety of theater, music, and fine arts events at Carroll make the college a cultural arts destination for county residents and workers, as well as visitors to the area," she said.
"I am very excited about the energy and quality of the Visual and Performing Arts faculty and staff at Carroll Community College," said Dr. James Ball, vice president for Academic and Student Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. "Faculty members are making a huge splash In the regional arts scene and have developed a tremendous arts showcase for Carroll County and the college. We have an ambitious art agenda planned for the year, ranging from the Westminster Symphony and the Azimuth Quartet to the musical Chicago and our exceptional art exhibits," he said.
Whether your interests range from instrumental, to vocal music, or from a full orchestra to a jazz quartet, the music department at Carroll Community College will present a variety of musical events to satisfy every taste in 2008. Performances are in the Scott Center for the Fine and Performing Arts unless otherwise noted. For information, call 410-386-8575.
Recitals >>
February 20 o 12:30 pm
Faculty Recital Series: Ted Dix, Organ
March 12 o 12:30 pm
Faculty Recital Series: Bo Eckard and Jon Seligman, Brazilian Samba
March 26 o 12:30 pm
Faculty Recital Series: Bo Eckard and Jon Seligman, Music of West Africa
Ensembles >>
February 10, 2008 o 7:30 pm (Previously scheduled for February 9)
The Lyric Brass Baroque n' Brass: Featuring favorite music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods
February 19, 2008 o 8:00 pm
Jon Seligman Quartet: A Concert of Jazz Standards
March 11, 2008 o 7:30 pm
Westminster Symphony Orchestra at Alumni Hall, McDaniel College:
A program featuring local composers
March 13, 2008 o 7:30 pm
Azimuth String Quartet
April 29 o 7:30 pm
Westminster Symphony Orchestra and Carroll Community College Choir:
A Concert of Baroque Music
May 12, 2008 o 7:30 pm
The Lyric Brass Delta: A multimedia
experience based on music
of change and variation
May 14 o 7:30 pm
Carroll Community College
Guitar Ensemble and Jazz Choir
May 16 o 7:30 pm
Carroll Community College
Jazz Combo and Ensemble
Between the months of September and May, the college hosts art exhibitions in a wide variety of media and styles by regional and nationally celebrated visual artists. Student work is also highlighted at selected exhibits throughout the year. Exhibitions are held in The Gallery in the Scott Center, The Great Hall, and The Langdon Gallery.
The college hosts opening receptions for selected exhibitions and the public. The college community is invited to attend free of charge. For additional information about the college's art exhibition program, notification of opening receptions and related events, contact the Gallery Director, Maggie Ball at 410-386-8256.
Scott Center >>
February 17 through April 4
Cynthia Aldrich: Bearing Witness
Reception: Sunday, February 17 o 2:00-4:00 pm
Cynthia uses the metaphor of the ancient goddess to express her views and feelings about current issues that are of importance to everyone but are particularly relevant to women. Her figurative ceramic sculpture recalls the images of prehistoric goddesses imparting a remembrance of peace, a relatedness to the earth and a reflection of a time of empowered women.
April 13 through May 23
Christina Collins-Smith
Namaste: digital photography/collage/painting
Reception: Sunday, April 13 o 2:00-4:00 pm
Christina's digital photography crosses over into collage and painting in her effort to create magical layers of nuance and medium. An intimate and personal statement of transition and transcendence, this body of work resonates as part art, part journal both fragile and profound and spiritual at its core.
Langdon Gallery >>
February 11 through March 13
Youth Art Month, Carroll Public Schools
Each year Carroll Community College hosts an exhibit of the best of Carroll County High School student work. The exhibit is a tribute, not only to the students but to the hard work and dedicated instruction by Carroll County Art teachers. The work is diverse in both theme and media and is a testament to the awakening qualities of art in the public school system. Frequently, students who are hesitant to express themselves in other areas shine in the arts.
April 14 through May 15
Carroll Community College Student work
The end of year exhibit for our students in all Visual Art courses, this show provides a venue for many who have never shown their work publicly as well as more experienced students. Paintings, drawings, digital art and 3 Dimensional work from the classrooms of multiple instructors serve as both educational outcomes and inspiration for the college community as a whole.
Babylon Great Hall >>
February 11 through March 13
South Carroll Fine Arts League
The South Carroll Fine Arts League is a group of professional fine artists from Sykesville and the surrounding areas. The group works in a variety of media and exhibits widely while sponsoring Art Walks, Art in the Parks and other community-y based art events to showcase local talent. This is their first exhibit at Carroll Community College.
April 12 through May 16
Steve Solomon Photographs: Natural Attraction
Steve Solomon's fascination with the camera began early in life and went from preoccupation to occupation in 1986 when he left a career in photolithography to follow his bliss. Lighting techniques and love of the out of doors are his passion. Steve is well known in the region as a successful portrait and wedding photographer.
Exciting and powerful theatre experiences await you at Carroll Community College. Comedies, dramas, new works, classics, plays and musicals have been selected to inspire and entertain. For information call 410-386-8575.
Thursday, March 6 o 7:30 pm
Friday, March 7 o 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 8 o 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 9 o 3:00 pm
Book by: Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse; Lyrics by: Fred Ebb; Music by: John Kander
The hit of the 1997 Broadway season! Chicago won six Tony awards including best revival! In razzle-dazzle, roaring twenties Chicago, married chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover. Roxie and another murderess on death row vie for the spotlight and the headlines, hoping the publicity will catapult them to fame, freedom and successful stage careers. This sharp- edged musical of murder, exploitation, and treachery features a dazzling score that sparked immortal choreography by Bob Fosse.
General admission $10 o Carroll Community College students, faculty and staff attend FREE with college I.D.
Friday, May 2 o 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 3 o 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 4 o 3:00 pm
One-Act Play Festival!
Carroll Community College is hosting its first ever One-Act Play Festival!
Two- to- four student performed and produced One-Act plays will be presented.
A variety of plays all in one performance! Admission is free.