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Chris Burden, Extreme Measures, New Museum
Among my first stops during this year's New York trip was the New Museum, which is currently featuring a museum-wide exhibition of works by Chris Burden.
His work spans several decades and includes sculpture, performances and pieces that blur the boundary between the two. While the exhibition officially focuses on "weights and measures, boundaries and constraints", the theme that seem to most unify all the pieces was "play". Certainly, he has access to toys on larger scale than most of us could only dream of as kids who loved building sets. This was most apparent in his series of bridges, made from custom erector sets and other materials.
Similar principles are at work in his large-scale sculptures, which use metal and found material and also included a sense of motion. The Big Wheel is indeed a huge wheel constructed from weathered metal.
It is designed to spin freely, and visitors are treated to a twice-a-day "performance" of the piece where a motorcycle is used to start the wheel spinning. You can see a bit of this in the following video:
A nearby sculpture address the absence of motion with a perfectly balanced Porsche and meteorite. I am curious as to how Burden obtained such a large meteorite to use in this piece.
Motion is taken to another extreme in an outdoor piece (shown as video documentation in the exhibition) where large steel beams are dropped into a pool of wet cement. As the positions, angles, are unpredictable, the result is a rather chaotic jumble of vertical steel spires. The video itself is quite interesting with the motion of the cement in response to the the dropping beams.
Perhaps the element of play is most apparent (and most poignant) in A Tale of Two Cities. Burden constructs a tableaux of two city-states at war using sand, plants and a large array of toys.
Some of these toys (in particular, a few of the space-themed toys) were familiar from my own childhood. And certainly we sometimes created battles with them. But those fantasies never touched on the realities of war, and somehow Burden made that very apparent in this piece. Perhaps it was the presence of bullets among the toys that made it seem like something very, very bad could come of this.
The exhibition also includes other conceptual pieces, as well as some examples of Burden's early video work, which was interesting precisely because it seems dated.
Chris Bürden: Extreme Measures will be on display at the New Museum through January 12, 2014.
Weekend Cat Blogging with Luna: Napping near the Artwork
Cats always find interesting places to nap. For Luna, that sometimes means next to the standing artwork. We have quite a few free-standing 3D pieces in the collection at CatSynth HQ.
Luna will probably be napping quite a bit this weekend, as I will be spending most of it in the studio with Reconnaissance Fly as complete the final mixes for our upcoming album. In the evenings, I will be back here to work on a completely different musical project, my electronic solo show in Portland next Saturday. But Luna gets to sit in and supervise that one.
Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday by Samantha, Clementine and Maverick.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
By-product Becomes Product, Intersection for the Arts
Intersection of art and science is not uncommon in contemporary culture, or on the pages of this site. While this most often involves the integration of high technology (e.g., electronics and the Internet) into artistic pieces and practice, the current exhibition at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco takes a new look at a more basic technology, the manufactured materials used by many artists. The show, titled By-product Becomes Product, is a collaboration of lead artist Christine Lee with research engineer John F. Hunt at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory exploring the use of excess wood waste as a safer alternative to some of the toxic materials often used by artists.
Artists have made use of engineered wood products originally created for practical uses such as homebuilding and furniture manufacturing. Among these are plywood, particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and medium density fiberboard (MDF). All of these have their positives and negatives, and among the negatives are the manufacturing processes, byproducts, and especially in the case of MDF toxic chemicals in the product itself. While a resident the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Lee worked with Hunt to develop a custom composite board made entirely from sawdust and paper fibers. A sample was available at the start of the exhibition:
Because the board was made entirely from waste material, it required no additional wood to be harvested. And because it does not include any adhesives or other additional chemicals, it is non-toxic for artists and viewers of the art. Finally, because it is made entirely from wood by-products, it is biodegradable, and the objects made from it will naturally decay and return to the environment. With this theme in mind, the boards were given to five additional artists to create new work for the exhibition. The results spanned a variety of conceptual and aesthetic styles, and crossed the boundaries between art and design. They were brought together into Intersection's gallery space in an installation whose clean and spartan quality matched the texture of the material itself:
Russel Baldon's Mutant Boxes perfectly balanced art and design, and was in many ways the most fun piece in the exhibition. Baldon used the composite material to fashion a series of exquisite corpse boxes featuring his own drawings. The drawings were fun, surreal, often comical or fantastic, and I found myself quite engrossed in playing with them.
[Russel Baldon, Mutant Boxes, 2013.]
This is Baldon's first public exhibit featuring his drawings – most of his existing work is sculpture and furniture – but they look like the product of someone who is at ease with drawing. The images are clean and precise while maintaining a hand-drawn quality and a common sense a style among a diverse set of characters ranging from anthropomorphic cats to multi-tendriled space aliens. The idea to fashion the material into an object of play was a natural one for the artist, who started his work in his family's wooden-toy business. It was also an opportunity to feel the material in the form of a finished piece, after touching the prototype board at the start of the exhibit.
Design was squarely the focus of Christine Lee's own piece, Interwoven. This sculptural furniture piece is a prototype demonstrating the properties of the composite board in terms of strength and flexibility, and an effort that minimized wasted material and toxicity. But the geometric simplicity combined with the detail of the weave also makes it an aesthetically strong piece. It would certainly be at home at CatSynth HQ.
[Christine Lee, Interwoven, 2013.]
Imin Yeh adapted the new boards to an old artform, woodblock printing, in her conceptual installation Double Happiness. She used the composite board as a safe and more natural alternative to other materials used in contemporary woodblock printing. The result was a series of printed paper fruits that were assembled into a cart and crates, also made from the composite board. The scene evokes the wooden produce stands that can be seen around San Francisco:
[Imin Yeh, Double Happiness, 2012.]
The sculpture itself is intended to be a vending station, selling limited edition paper fruits as "organic, fresh, fine art."
For feed/rest/nest, artist Barbara Holmes created a series of colorful bird houses arranged around the gallery's spiral staircase.
[Barbara Holmes, feed/rest/nest, 2013.]
Aesthetically, the birdhouses themselves are reminiscent of California architecture of the mid-to-late 20th century. But they also serve a function of returning the materials, sawdust and paper fiber that were themselves by-products of trees removed from the natural environment back into the natural world. They provide habitat for birds, but also will naturally bio-degrade and be reabsorbed into the environment. Holmes intends to place the birdhouses into friends' yards for habitation and will continue to track their use.
Like Imin Yeh, Julia Goodman used the composite board indirectly, is this case as a series of molds for cast paper. Her conceptual pieces FEMA 3 Step, Forgive and Forget, and Oversight embed words into the cast paper that recall the issues surrounding MDF and formaldehyde leakage in FEMA trailers after Hurricane Katrina. The issue of MDF had a personal dimension for Goodman, as she used MDF in her own art practice and was exposed to its toxic byproducts. She was drawn to the new materials promise as a non-toxic alternative for both art practice and for homes.
Among the artists in the exhibition Scott Oliver seemed to take the sustainability and minimization of waste to its furthest extreme. He used not only the composite boards, but the wooden crate that used to ship the raw material to him. The crate and boards were fashioned into a camper shell for the his Toyota pick-up, once again making an object that is both art and function at the same time. His title Tree, Crate, Camper Shell, Or, On the Way to Becoming Something Else suggests that the life cycle of the piece and its materials is not yet over. They started as trees, become crates and composite boards, but in the future the natural materials of the camper shell will decay and be returned to the environment.
The pieces in this exhibition demonstrate that Lee and Hunt's new composite-board material has promise as a medium for art and design. They were all quite simple in both form and concept and attempted to relate directly to the themes of sustainability inherent in the material. It will be interesting too see if the material has a wider arrange of applications in more complex artworks in the future and ideas beyond these themes. That will clearly depend on its availability and the imagination of artists.
By-product Becomes Product will remain on display at Intersection for Arts through March 30.
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF): Art Installations
In addition to the main concerts, this year's San Francisco Electronic Music Festival featured a concurrent gallery exhibition. It took place at Million Fishes in the Mission District of San Francisco, and featured a variety of works that combined sound and visuals. I had the opportunity to visit the gallery on the Saturday of the festival, just before that night's concert.
I have experienced Matthew Goodheart's work with transducer-excited cymbals a few times now, most notably in his solo performance at the Outsound Music Summit. Here, he arranged them around the front room over the gallery to create an immersive installation called …silence through things secret….
The installation dominated the main room both visually and aurally, with the late-afternoon sun reflecting off the cymbals, and a variety of sounds echoing around the room. Computer-generated sounds were created from analysis of the resonances of each cymbal and recordings of each instrument played in a variety of manners. The sounds were then used to excite the cymbals via small transducers.
Because the sound from the cymbals is acoustic, the only notion one has of electronics at work is the fact that they are standing on their own without anyone there to play them. But there is nonetheless something otherwordly about the visuals and sounds of the unattended cymbals. Goodheart's piece was part of a larger project he has developed in conjunction withe Center foew New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley.
Giant Leap, the result of collaboration by Floor van de Velde and Elaine Buckholtz, paid tribute to the late Neil Armstrong and the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. The audio-and-visual work combined an anaglyph image of the moon with a sound score realized using modified rotary telephones.
The moon landing and the sounds associated with that achievement are still quite fresh, but the use of rotary telephones reminds us just how long ago this achievement took place. I consider rotary phones a particularly endangered technology in that it bears so little resemblance to contemporary phones in both form and function.
Dan Good presented two small kinetic sound sculptures. Artificial Lung combined standard speaker drivers in a novel way. They were pressed against one another a driven with a 1Hz sine wave. While the signal is far below the range of human hearing, the pressure on the speakers was visible and created the illusion of a breathing organism.
In, Good's sculpture Petri Dish, small glass spheres are pulled up and down in a glass bowl and tubes. The sound of the glass is subtle, but the visual is quite striking, especially when it is moving (the photograph does not really capture this aspect.)
Both of Good's sculptures draw upon simple shapes, lines and processes to create something conceptually compact and understandable. As such, they play to the strengths of modernism – something refreshing to see in a contemporary setting,
SFEMF has featured installations before, usually as fixtures in the lobby during concerts. I thought separating it out into a gallery presentation worked well and allowed the pieces the chance to be seen outside the shadow of the live performances and milling crowds. I hope they do this again next year.
Wordless Wednesday: Maritime Plaza Sculpture
re:BOUND, visual and performance art at Live Worms Gallery
Two weeks ago I participated in a two-day opening with visual artist Yong Han and performance artist Jacqueline Loundsbury Live Worms Gallery in San Francisco. Together, we created an experience combining sculpture and two-dimensional artwork with music and performance art.
The overall show was anchored by Yong Han's sculptures, paintings and drawings. The sculptures, which range widely in size, use a combination of metal, ceramic, beeswax and other materials. The two dimensional pieces were a combination of ink drawings and paint.
[Image courtesy of Yong Han.]
There are elements that are common in his work across media, including graceful geometric curves and lines with organic shapes and patterns seamlessly integrated. Indeed, some of the two-dimensional works appear to the shadows of his sculptures.
What particularly works for me in these pieces, whether two dimensional or three dimensional, is their simplicity. The lines and curves form repeating patterns and leave empty spaces; and the areas of color are simple and well-deliniated as well. Many of the pieces have a very delicate feel to them, but some of the more recent ones are very densely packed and suggest strength.
The basic structural theme of thin metal and curving lines carried over from the visual art to the performance aspects of the event, providing a level of continuity between the two. The first night featured Jacqueline Loundsbury in an improvised performance piece called re:BOUND where she wrapped her body in steel wire bindings. Large rolls of steel wire were placed around the performance space where she stood and visitors were encouraged to participate by taking pieces of wire and wrapping them around her bare body. Throughout this performance, she was quite exposed and accepted the risks of not knowing what participants might do – something taken to much more dangerous extreme by some of the early performance artists in the 1970s. Indeed, the resulting "wrapping" was less of a cocoon and more an overwhelming array of adornments, such as headgear and other decorative elements, some sexually charged. And the whole amalgamation of wire seemed quite heavy and uncomfortable. But she successfully completed the performance and the resulting embodied artwork fit well with the existing sculptural pieces. After extricating herself from the wire, some of the pieces themselves became independent elements (along with the unused wire) for the presentation on the next day.
The second evening featured my live improvised electronic music in the space with the artwork and a video projection of Loundsbury's performance from the previous night. For the set, I used several iPad apps including Animoog, Bebot and iMS-20, along with the Dave Smith Evolver and a couple of newly acquired analog synthesizer modules, the Wiard Anti-Oscillator from Malekko Heavy Industry and the E350 Morphing Terrarium from Synthesis Technology. Overall, I intended the sounds to reflect the wire theme that was present in the sculptures, drawings and the performance, with sounds that were metallic, continuously curving, or otherwise reflecting of the other elements. You can see a short clip below of the video projection and the music-gear setup in action.
re: BOUND, with Yong Han, Jacqueline Loundsbury and Amar Chaudhary from CatSynth on Vimeo.
The improved music continued for the whole evening, about four hours in all, with breaks for selections from my CD Aquatic.
A decent number of people came through the show over the duration, a combination of people who knew advance from announcements as well as some who wandered in from the surrounding North Beach neighborhood and enjoyed the experience. I am glad I was able to participate, and look forward to working with both artists again in the future.
Wordless Wednesday: Tilted Frame
Occupy Wall Street (Zuccotti Park)
Being in New York in the third month of Occupy Wall Street, I of course had to visit Zuccotti Park, the symbolic and initial geographical center of the movement. And I did visit for a while on Saturday.
This is of course coming a little less than a week after the major raid on Zuccotti Park, so things were a bit sparse, indeed less active than some of the events I have attended in San Francisco. The ban on tents was in full force, with not a single tent in sight. I had also heard about a ban on musical instruments. So here I am playing the Smule Magic Piano on the iPhone in defiance.
Zuccotti park is in fact not much of a park at all. It's a paved plaza with lights in between some of the stones. A few of the planted trees in the space were festooned with holiday lights. It's the sort of modern public space one often sees near commercial buildings. If it wasn't a protest site and rather cold, it would be a perfectly nice spot for lunch. I did of course get to see the "weird red thing", aka Joie de Vivre by Mark di Suvero.
At the time I arrived, many of the leaflets and signs were in fact not about the core issues of the Occupy movement, such as income inequality and accountability of the financial institutions and their leaders, but rather a mix of 9-11 conspiracy theories (though I should not be surprised as we were just over a block from the World Trade Center site). I was disappointed to see that, as I place very little credence in such conspiracies and think of it as a detraction. But fortunately, a large march of people came back from the direction of the actual Wall Street and seemed to be more on message. I was even able to get from them a copy of the "Occupy Wall Street Journal":
There was one tense moment when there were rumblings about police entering into the main area of the plaza. A quick look around confirmed this to be the case. As one speaker got up to address the crowd and remind everyone to be civil and not to repeat the mistakes of previous encounters, the police suddenly swooped in on one person, whom the arrested and carried out of the perimeter. It was all over quite quickly, and without any confrontations – there were additional calls to those assembled not to do anything provocative. But there was a lot of confusion, and no one seemed to know exactly why this one person was arrested. But it seemed to be connected to disrupting the putting up of holiday lights by the park's owners.
Other than that, it was relatively calm and quiet visit to Occupy Wall Street…and a very cold one. The sparseness in comparison to recent west-coast events and the cold further suggests that the movement has to morph into something else beyond camps and marches.
Weekend Cat Blogging: Cat at Islais Creek
Islais Creek in San Francisco is a favorite photography spot of mine, and also home to an art studio complex featuring many metalwork sculptors. While walking outside of Islais Creek Studios, I encountered this gray cat.
It's not the first time I have come across cats at Islais Creek Studios. Indeed, I posted about a cat I encountered there last year. It seems to be a natural environment for outdoor cats, lots of places hide in the industrial debris, and friendly people who leave food for them.
In the picture, we see the cat sitting near large metalwork sculptures by the artist David I McGraw. I like the abstract shapes and focus on single, and the fit well with the environment. And they go well with cats.
We participated in this year's BlogBlast for Peace, which occurred yesterday. Cats have been quite prominent among the entries every year. You can see our peace globe here.
Weekend Cat Blogging #335 is hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome at PaulChens FoodBlog?!
Carnival of the Cats #399 will be hosted this Sunday by Nikita and Elvira at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.


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Importantly, cytokines are involved in both injury and repair, and the conditions underlying these distinct outcomes are under intense investigation and debate. Notably, evidence from both animal and human studies implicates the immune system in a number of disorders with known or suspected developmental origins, including schizophrenia, autism, and major depression. Thus, the proximate goal of our research program is to determine how seemingly disparate challenges during the perinatal period of life, such as infection, stressors, or drugs of abuse, may converge on the immune system and thereby markedly influence brain development, as well as cognitive and affective behaviors throughout the remainder of the lifespan. Conversely, we are also exploring how interventions, such as nurturing maternal care or environmental enrichment, can work to counteract the deleterious effects of early-life infection, trauma, or stress, again via their impact on neuroimmune communication. Finally, for each of these questions/research areas, we are also beginning to focus on the role of epigenetic changes specifically within innate immune cells of the brain, microglia, in enduring (and potentially transgenerational) neural and behavioral outcomes.
There are 4 major projects in the lab: 1. Early-Life Infection and Later-Life Cognitive Impairment 2. Maternal Obesity and Programming of Neuroinflammation Throughout the Lifespan 3. Role of Glia in Addiction and Reward 4. Early-Life Stress and interactions with Environmental Pollution on Birth Outcomes
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
TWD- Apple Cake
Grab the real recipe from Lynne. I'll be back later with a printable version of my highly adapted recipe.
17 comments:
- ♥peachkins♥ said...
mouthwatering apple cake!
- October 5, 2010 at 12:13 AM
- chocolatechic said...
Brilliant looking loaves.
I'm so sorry that your friend moved.
Having been the moving friend, it is difficult.
- October 5, 2010 at 5:11 AM
- Nickki said...
Love your loaves with all that icing! Yummy. Sorry to hear about your friend moving, I know there is always the telephone/e-mail, but it isn't really the same, I know!
- October 5, 2010 at 5:57 AM
- Mary Ann said...
Looks fab! I feel for your friend- I would die that far north from the cold!
- October 5, 2010 at 6:08 AM
- Kimberly Johnson said...
Your loaf cakes look fantastic! I wish I could get a perfect icing like that! Mine is always, too thin, too thick, too gloppy ... never just right!
- October 5, 2010 at 7:10 AM
- Flourchild said...
It's so hard to say goodbye to friends and moving is the pits..been there done that! Your cake looks so incredible, I love it!
You will think of ways to keep you friendships alive over the miles..I do so with 4 BFF of mine!
- October 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- cindy said...
Your loaves look delish. I bet the glaze thru them over the top. We loved this recipe.
- October 5, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- Jennifurla said...
the glaze is awesome
- October 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM
- honeymuffin said...
Love your adaptations...looks scrumptious! Thanks for baking along!
- October 5, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Tia said...
goodbyes are always so sad...
- October 5, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Peggy said...
Love your loaves! Sorry about your friend. That is always hard.
- October 5, 2010 at 6:39 PM
- Cathy said...
Oh, so sad that your friend moved. But maybe long-distance apple cake baking sessions will help you feel closer. Your loaves look great! We loved this one too. Bring on apple season!
- October 5, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Beth said...
Your cake looks wonderful. I can't wait to try it. So sorry about your friend moving.
- October 6, 2010 at 6:07 PM
- Katrina said...
Ooh, love your loaves. We just moved and I miss my friends, too. :(
- October 6, 2010 at 10:05 PM
- Pamela said...
Wow...those loaves look so good with all of that glaze on there!! Sweet post, too.
- October 7, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- TeaLady said...
you could totally send her a couple of loaves. well wrapped priority.
Love that you made loaves.
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Double delish! Your blog is amazing and what cute kiddies. Happy Tuesday!
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- Speech production and perception: Experimental analyses and models (2005)
- This special issue of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics contains a collection of papers of the French-German Thematic Summerschool on "Cognitive and physical models of speech production, and speech perception and of their interaction". Organized by Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin), Jonathan Harrington (IPdS Kiel), Pascal Perrier (ICP Grenoble) and Bernd Pompino-Marschall (HUB and ZAS Berlin) and funded by the German-French University in Saarbrücken this summerschool was held from September 19th till 24th 2004 at the coast of the Baltic Sea at the Heimvolkshochschule Lubmin (Germany) with 45 participants from Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Canada. The scientific program of this summerschool that is reprinted at the end of this volume included 11 key-note presentations by invited speakers, 21 oral presentations and a poster session (8 presentations). The names and addresses of all participants are also given in the back matter of this volume. All participants was offered the opportunity to publish an extended version of their presentation in the ZAS Papers in Linguistics. All submitted papers underwent a review and an editing procedure by external experts and the organizers of the summerschool. As it is the case in a summerschool, papers present either works in progress, or works at a more advanced stage, or tutorials. They are ordered alphabetically by their first author's name, fortunately resulting in the fact that this special issue starts out with the paper that won the award as best pre-doctoral presentation, i.e. Sophie Dupont, Jérôme Aubin and Lucie Ménard with "A study of the McGurk effect in 4 and 5-year-old French Canadian children".
- Implementing the syntax of Japanese numeral classifiers (2005)
- While the sortal constraints associated with Japanese numeral classifiers are well-studied, less attention has been paid to the details of their syntax. We describe an analysis implemented within a broad-coverage HPSG that handles an intricate set of numeral classifier construction types and compositionally relates each to an appropriate semantic representation, using Minimal Recursion Semantics.
- Open-Source Machine Translation with DELPH-IN (2005)
- The Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG Initiative (DELH-IN) provides the infrastructure needed to produce open-source semantic transfer-based machine translation systems. We have made available a prototype Japanese-English machine translation system built from existing resources include parsers, generators, bidirectional grammars and a transfer engine.
- Merging methods of speech visualization (2005)
- The author presents MASSY, the MODULAR AUDIOVISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIZER. The system combines two approaches of visual speech synthesis. Two control models are implemented: a (data based) di-viseme model and a (rule based) dominance model where both produce control commands in a parameterized articulation space. Analogously two visualization methods are implemented: an image based (video-realistic) face model and a 3D synthetic head. Both face models can be driven by both the data based and the rule based articulation model. The high-level visual speech synthesis generates a sequence of control commands for the visible articulation. For every virtual articulator (articulation parameter) the 3D synthetic face model defines a set of displacement vectors for the vertices of the 3D objects of the head. The vertices of the 3D synthetic head then are moved by linear combinations of these displacement vectors to visualize articulation movements. For the image based video synthesis a single reference image is deformed to fit the facial properties derived from the control commands. Facial feature points and facial displacements have to be defined for the reference image. The algorithm can also use an image database with appropriately annotated facial properties. An example database was built automatically from video recordings. Both the 3D synthetic face and the image based face generate visual speech that is capable to increase the intelligibility of audible speech. Other well known image based audiovisual speech synthesis systems like MIKETALK and VIDEO REWRITE concatenate pre-recorded single images or video sequences, respectively. Parametric talking heads like BALDI control a parametric face with a parametric articulation model. The presented system demonstrates the compatibility of parametric and data based visual speech synthesis approaches.
- Treebank profiling of spoken and written German (2005)
- This paper profiles significant differences in syntactic distribution and differences in word class frequencies for two treebanks of spoken and written German: the TüBa-D/S, a treebank of transliterated spontaneous dialogs, and the TüBa-D/Z treebank of newspaper articles published in the German daily newspaper ´die tageszeitung´(taz). The approach can be used more generally as a means of distinguishing and classifying language corpora of different genres.
- Learning to control an articulatory synthesizer by imitating real speech (2005)
- The goal of our current project is to build a system that can learn to imitate a version of a spoken utterance using an articulatory speech synthesiser. The approach is informed and inspired by knowledge of early infant speech development. Thus we expect our system to reproduce and exploit the utility of infant behaviours such as listening, vocal play, babbling and word imitation. We expect our system to develop a relationship between the sound-making capabilities of its vocal tract and the phonetic/phonological structure of imitated utterances. At the heart of our approach is the learning of an inverse model that relates acoustic and motor representations of speech. The acoustic to auditory mappings uses an auditory filter bank and a self-organizing phase of learning. The inverse model from auditory to vocal tract control parameters is estimated using a babbling phase, in which the vocal tract is essentially driven in a random manner, much like the babbling phase of speech acquisition in infants. The complete system can be used to imitate simple utterances through a direct mapping from sound to control parameters. Our initial results show that this procedure works well for sounds generated by its own voice. Further work is needed to build a phonological control level and achieve better performance with real speech.
- A descriptive characterization of multicomponent tree adjoining grammars (2005)
- Multicomponent Tree Adjoining Grammars (MCTAG) is a formalism that has been shown to be useful for many natural language applications. The definition of MCTAG however is problematic since it refers to the process of the derivation itself: a simultaneity constraint must be respected concerning the way the members of the elementary tree sets are added. Looking only at the result of a derivation (i.e., the derived tree and the derivation tree), this simultaneity is no longer visible and therefore cannot be checked. I.e., this way of characterizing MCTAG does not allow to abstract away from the concrete order of derivation. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an alternative definition of MCTAG that characterizes the trees in the tree language of an MCTAG via the properties of the derivation trees the MCTAG licences.
- How do treebank annotation schemes influence parsing results? : or how not to compare apples and oranges (2005)
- In the last decade, the Penn treebank has become the standard data set for evaluating parsers. The fact that most parsers are solely evaluated on this specific data set leaves the question unanswered how much these results depend on the annotation scheme of the treebank. In this paper, we will investigate the influence which different decisions in the annotation schemes of treebanks have on parsing. The investigation uses the comparison of similar treebanks of German, NEGRA and TüBa-D/Z, which are subsequently modified to allow a comparison of the differences. The results show that deleted unary nodes and a flat phrase structure have a negative influence on parsing quality while a flat clause structure has a positive influence.
- Annotating Honorifics Denoting Social Ranking of Referents (2005)
- This paper proposes an annotating scheme that encodes honorifics (respectful words). Honorifics are used extensively in Japanese, reflecting the social relationship (e.g. social ranks and age) of the referents. This referential information is vital for resolving zero pronouns and improving machine translation outputs. Annotating honorifics is a complex task that involves identifying a predicate with honorifics, assigning ranks to referents of the predicate, calibrating the ranks, and connecting referents with their predicates.
- Scope and situation binding in LTAG using semantic unification (2005)
- This paper develops a framework for TAG (Tree Adjoining Grammar) semantics that brings together ideas from different recent approaches.Then, within this framework, an analysis of scope is proposed that accounts for the different scopal properties of quantifiers, adverbs, raising verbs and attitude verbs. Finally, including situation variables in the semantics, different situation binding possibilities are derived for different types of quantificational elements.


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Ocean Stones A Mermaids Tale is an delightful reference for any coastal enthusiast. An over view of what sea glass is and why it has significant meaning in coastal culture and to the author. It instructs the reader on Eco friendly crafts that can be created with sea glass and sea shells.
Author Marlis Sonnen provides her years of beach combing experiences and reading on the subject for great tips of discovering and identifying sea glass, its historical significance, along with ways to assess rarity, and the lucrative locations and times to search for it.
The reader also is introduced to the science of how sea glass becomes frosted. Ms. Sonnen explains how the surface of sea glass shards transform them into ocean bling.
Above all it addresses the need for our society to care for our ocean as most sea glass came from garbage dump sites.
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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
1325 Massachusetts Avenue, NW #600, Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 393-5177 | Fax: (202) 393-2241
Website: http://thetaskforce.org
Principal Staff:
Rea Carey, Executive Director
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Founded: 1973
Mission Statement:
The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. We do this by training activists, equipping state and local organizations with the skills needed to organize broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro LGBT legislation, and building the organizational capacity of our movement. As part of a broader social justice movement, we work to create a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identify and creates opportunity for all.
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OCU's Morrow, Georgia Campus Celebrates the Grand Opening
More than 100 community and business leaders were on hand to witness the December 4 grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony at Ohio Christian Universities Dr. Malon Mimms Education Center in Morrow, GA. Dr. Malon Mimms, his wife Kaywin and sons Robert Mimms and Lonnie Mimms attended this tremendous day of celebration. Also attending on behalf of the late Dr. Jim Dornan were his daughter and grand-daughter, Heather Dornan and Ashley-Kate Dornan along with son Eric Dornan and his wife Abby Dornan. The Mimms and Dornans gave generously to see this education center serve the Clayton and Henry County communities. Many state and local government leaders were also present and spoke including Mayor J.B. Burke of Morrow and Clayton County Chamber President & CEO Yulonda Darden Beauford. A strong contingency from Ohio Christian leadership were present, including OCU's President, Dr. Mark Smith; Provost, Dr. Hank Kelly; Assistant Provost and Vice President, Dr. Tim Eades; and Vice President of Advancement, Mr. Mark Taylor.
Dr. Shawn Thomas, OCU's Director of Enrollment and Operations and formerly Vice President at SunTrust Bank kicked the festivities off and spoke passionately of how the reality of the Morrow campus came about as vision met faith. Dr. Thomas expressed that what is happening in Morrow is nothing short of divine intervention. In just four short months since the doors officially opened, the location is serving almost 30 students with hundreds more anticipated in 2014. Ohio Christian University is about partnerships and formal partnerships have been forged with local ministries and businesses along with institutions like Southern Crescent Technical College. Ohio Christian University is on the move in Morrow, GA.
President Mark Smith spoke of his relationship with the Mimms and Dornan families and their generosity and commitment to Christian higher education in the greater Atlanta area. Dr. Smith shared, "Ohio Christian University is a Christian university that prepares students to lead and serve the church and society. We highly value education and have a commitment to enhance the communities in which we serve and to promote great citizens. We are an institution that adds value by creating opportunities for those who need extra assistance in life's journey. We value education and will provide a high quality, low cost alternative to Georgia students. Our goal is that students will lead their communities through strong Christian values and a great work ethic."
One of the most special moments of the day was the unveiling of two beautiful portraits of Dr. Malon Mimms and Dr. Jim and Nancy Dornan. These will both be placed in the facility. Ms. Latonya Holmes, Corporate Developer and Recruiter for Morrow assisted with the unveiling of the portraits. Visibly moved, she said, "What these families did for OCU changed my life! What is about to happen will be amazing."
Ohio Christian University, founded in 1948 is one of the fastest growing universities in the nation, and is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. OCU offers degree programs for traditional undergraduate students, graduate students, and adult and online students at 14 locations and online. Additionally, OCU's Trailblazer Academy allows high school students to complete college classes online. All programs are designed to equip students to become leaders in their careers, communities, families, and the world. Ohio Christian is accredited by the Ohio Board of Regents, the North Central Association of the Higher Learning Commission, and the Association for Biblical Higher Education.
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Manchester United Strikers' Attacking Stats for 2012-13 Season To Date [INFOGRAPHIC]
Look who has the best conversion rate among strikers at Manchester United.
While Chicharito has played far fewer matches than Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney, it still shows how clinical Javier Hernandez is in front of goal for Manchester United. And if Petr Cech hadn't been two spectacular saves in the FA Cup replay earlier this week, Hernandez would have two more goals under his belt.
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Louis Vuitton Taiga Leather Baical Wristlet
The bodies of figures arc sewn from flesh-coloured fabrics, while the pigs and geese (pages 44 -49) arc made from sand-coloured and white material. Paint hair on the head using dark brown craft paint or textile paint. use Pattern E and make a total of 142 perforated foundation papers. Louis Vuitton Taiga Leather Baical Wristlet. Cut the Fabrics To make the best use of your fabrics, cut the pieces in the order that follows. Then join the short bright pink print inner border scrips to the short edges of the pieced quilt center. Add solid red triangles to the muslin square s remaining raw edges to make a square-in-a-square block. Louis Vuitton Taiga Leather Baical Wristlet.


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Western investors turning to Islamic finance during recession
American bank Goldman Sachs invested $2 billion in Islamic bonds last year, and despite critics' concerns that they will be unable to completely comply with shariah finance regulations, more Western banks remain interested in Islamic financial products, according to a Reuters report. The global financial crisis has led some bankers and individuals to turn to […] [Read More]
The Simpsons holiday episode mocks shariah law in the U.S.
Last night's holiday episode of The Simpsons portrayed the family years into the future, when grown-up Lisa's man Milhouse complains of Christmas allergies and heads to Michigan, which she says is "under shariah law." Milhouse is shown on the University of Michigan campus wearing a niqab, which shows only his eyes. Dearborn, Michigan is the […] [Read More]
Another hotel turns away Pamela Geller and anti-Shariah group
A week after a Hyatt Place hotel forced the Sugar Land Tea Party to move their controversial event featuring Pamela Geller, the same thing seems to be happening in Nashville. The Tennessean reports that Hutton Hotel canceled a contract for an event where Geller, her partner Robert Spencer and other anti-Shariah activists were scheduled to […] [Read More]
Gov. Rick Perry's relationship with Muslims may set him apart
Gov. Rick Perry's friendly relationship with some Texas Muslims was touted in a recent story on Salon.com. While some other presidential candidates bring up concerns about American Muslims' loyalty and decry Islamic law in the U.S., here's a Christian, Republican politician who initiated a teacher-training program on Islamic history and has been friends for years with […] [Read More]


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CCR Water Quality Report - City of Garland's Water Quality Report for 2014
On April 20, 2015 Garland Council decided to follow North Texas Municipal Water District's twice a week watering schedule. Garland Water Utility customers will be allowed to water lawns with sprinklers two days a week, if needed. Customers will have the flexibility of choosing which two days of the week they water. Remember to avoid watering your lawn with sprinklers between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. as this is a mandatory year-round water conservation regulation.


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TAPPS needs to reconsider Muslim school
Express-News Editorial Board : March 16, 2012 : Updated: March 19, 2012 12:26am
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Abilene Christian's Ben George (3) tries to defend as Beren Academy's Zach Yoshor (21) drives to the basket in the second quarter of the Class 2A TAPPS State Championship basketball game played at Nolan Christian Academy in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday, March 3, 2012. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Stewart F. House) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE AP MEMBERS ONLY
The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools acted prudently when it reversed — under legal threat and immense public pressure — a decision that would have forced a team from an Orthodox Jewish school in Houston to choose between forfeiting a spot in the TAPPS championship basketball tournament and observing the Jewish Sabbath.
The team from the Robert M. Beren Academy lost in the championship game on March 3. The incident, which gained national attention, was a positive learning experience about principle and religious tolerance.
"We have students from a large number of ethnic and religious backgrounds," reads a statement about the Beren episode on the TAPPS website. "Our state is becoming more diverse. Because of that, we are reaching out to leaders around the state. We want to listen, to hear their concerns and most of all, to hear their ideas."
Here's one. TAPPS should revisit its decision to exclude a Muslim school from the organization.
When Houston's Iman Academy sought to join TAPPS in 2010, it duly received a membership application. The New York Times reported that it also received a questionnaire inquiring, among other things, "Why do you wish to join an organization whose membership is in disagreement with your religious beliefs?" and, "What is your attitude about the spread of Islam in America?"
An Iman Academy administrator says the school did its best to answer the questions "in an inclusive manner." TAPPS denied the application. At least two other Islamic schools that sought TAPPS membership also received the questionnaire but declined to respond.
The TAPPS constitution notes that the organization's purpose is "to foster a spirit of fair play, good fellowship, true sportsmanship and wholesome competition for boys and girls." No student in Texas should be excluded from such competition simply on the basis of his or her religion.


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Navajo Sheep
The first Navajo sheep were brought to North America in 1540. Today, the Navajo sheep that surround the south-western parts of the United States are descendants of this ancient genotype.
Dry desert plains and rocky areas
Narrow, light-bodied sheep with long, clean legs. Coat is long on top and soft underneath. The sheep come in colors ranging from pure white to black, gray, browns, pinto and spotted. Because of the clean, long, lustrous wool they carry, their coats are used to make quality fabrics and rugs. Some rams have 4 fully developed horns.
These sheep are typically gregarious animals and live in flocks. All the animals in a flock react simultaneously and docilely follow their leaders, usually older experienced rams or ewes. The Navajo sheep is highly resistant to disease, and although it responds to individual attention, it needs no pampering to survive and prosper.
The female (ewe) sheep has strong maternal instincts. Gestation lasts about 150 days. Twins are common, which the mother can easily raise, and often there are triplets. The ewes are fiercely protective of their young lambs, helping keep their survival rate high.
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Posted: October 26, 2011
Two years ago, engineering students at Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) built functional, full-size furniture (even a throne!) out of nothing but recycled cardboard, glue and duct tape. Last year, they built two-person boats and raced them on the College pond.
This year? Approximately 100 students will design, build and race vehicles – some of which will be two-wheeled scooters and some will be, well, you never know what creative MHCC engineering students will come up with!
The third annual cardboard event will take place Oct. 28, 1 – 4 p.m., on the Gresham Campus, 26000 S.E. Stark St. The event is free and spectators are welcome to cheer on their favorite team or vehicle.
Troy Donaldson, mechanical engineering technology instructor, and Michael Woodburn, engineering transfer instructor, assigned the cardboard project to first-year students in their classes.
"At MHCC, we believe project-based learning is the best way to teach engineering topics such as teamwork, scheduling, communication, design and ethics," explains Donaldson.
"One of the keys to early success in college is engagement and engineering students by nature like to design, create, problem-solve, test and build, so we want them to experience that early in their education," he continues, "Plus, it's big fun!"
Working in four-person teams, students must create a wheeled vehicle and steer it down a nine-foot wide track, turn and stop within a specific distance of a target. To prevent anyone from breaking with their feet ala Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, drivers and passengers must not touch the ground. Three teams will race at a time, with the victors advancing to the next round until a champion is declared. Or, there's one functioning vehicle on the course.
If you plan to come out and watch this great event, parking permits are required on the Gresham Campus. Full day permits may be purchased for $3 at ticket kiosks located by the flagpoles and gym.
For information on MHCC's engineering programs, please visit mhcc.edu.
Individuals requiring accommodations due to a disability may contact the MHCC Disability Services Office at 503-491-6923 or 503-491-7670 (TDD). Please call at least two weeks prior to the event to ensure availability.


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Top 5 Best Wii Games of All Time
While the next generation of video game consoles is here, let's not be quick to forget the current generation of video game consoles. The current generation came out with a lot of great games that are worth mentioning. Right now we are going to focus on the Wii. The Wii was really revolutionary when it was first released and came out with tons of games that proved it. This list is comprised of Wii games that I have picked and that I think are the best Wii games of all time. These Wii games really revolutionized the way we play video games.
1)Wii Sports
Of course I have to mention games that are developed and published by Nintendo. Wii Sports came bundled with the Wii and revolutionized the way we play games. No longer did gamers have to just sit on the couch and press buttons. For the first time gamers had to actually get up and move around to play a sports video game. For the first time players had to mimic actions performed in real life sports. I loved that about it and was blown away by it. The game included five sports and has sold over 81 million copies. The game also received critical acclaim and received various awards. The five sports on the game were boxing, tennis, golf, bowling, and baseball. My favorite sports on the game were boxing and tennis. I don't really care for sport games but this one was really easy to play and appealed to people of all ages. Not to mention a very fun game to play. It was one of those games where you knew you had to try it, even if for some reason you didn't have the game, you knew you had to play it at least once.
2) Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
This Wii game I absolutely loved. In my opinion not only is this one of the best Wii games but one of the best video games of all time. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption executed the Wii controls quite well and sad to say it was hard for me to find a Wii game that did. Not only did the game have excellent game play but it had a great story line with plenty of action. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption takes place after Metroid Prime 2: Echoes but before Metroid II: Return of Samus. Since its release, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has sold over a million copies. If you have not played this Wii game yet I highly recommend that you do. It has stunning visuals, heart stopping action, makes use of the Wii controls beautifully, and definitely the best prime game in the series.
3) The Legend of Zelda:Skyward Sword
There are many Zelda fans that claim this is the best game out of the franchise. While I did love this game and thought it was great, my favorite one is The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Fans of the franchise were fortunate enough to be blessed with two releases for the Wii. In this release Zelda really was the center of the story and wasn't just a princess that needed to be rescued. They really had a close bond since they grew up together. I loved the bond between them because in most of the other games Link wasn't exactly a close friend. In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Zelda actually goes on her own journey of self discovery. This time around the story is more touching and you can almost feel the connection between Link and Zelda. Skyward Sword has been the earliest game yet in the franchise. It even takes place before The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. Besides the story, another great feature of this Wii game is the sword system. The sword system made players feel more a part of the game than before. The motion based sword play was very precise and accurate. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword did not feel like a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It was its own game and was set in the skies. It is no wonder this Wii game has sold over 3 million copies since it was released.
4) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
I am a huge fan of the Zelda franchise of course I am going to list The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in my Top 5 picks. I have good reasons for it though. Twilight Princess is a true Wii classic. This Wii game is a perfect blend of familiar Zelda traits and new ones. Set 100 years after Ocarina of time, Twilight Princess introduces us to a new realm and a new princess. We get introduced to the Twilight realm and Hyrule gets taken over by the King of the Twilight realm. This time link has to save Hyrule and not just the princess Zelda. As a result of trying to save Hyrule, Link gets turned into an animal. All throughout Twilight Princess Link switches back and forth between his human form and his animal form. The story is more advanced this time and darker. Even though the game play is similar to The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, it is enhanced by the Wii motion controls. Thanks to the Wii controls , players find themselves more immersed and more engaged in the game's combat. The Wii remote gave players more accuracy, speed, and really made us feel like just pressing buttons was a thing of the past. The first game in the franchise to receive a teen rating and received a few game of the year awards. It is no wonder it made its way into my number 4 spot of the Best Wii Games of all Time.
5)Mario Kart Wii
I had a hard time choosing the last spot on my list. There are a lot of great Wii games out there that made it hard to come up with this list to begin with. I wasn't sure if this last spot should go to Mario Kart Wii or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. In the end I obviously gave the spot to Mario Kart Wii. Why? The reason being is that fighting games aren't really a challenge for me. I liked SSBB but I got bored with the game after awhile. I got more hours of gaming out Mario Kart Wii and found it more of a challenge. This Wii game was a great mixture of old and new. We got to play online and race people from all over the globe which I loved, new characters were added to the roster such as baby Mario, and we got to ride bikes as well as cars. Another first for gamers besides playing online, gamers no longer had to use buttons to play a racing game. For the first time gamers really felt like they were behind the wheel, thanks to the Wii controls and the steering wheel that was included with the game. I also loved how you could use a GameCube controller as well as the Wii remote in Mario Kart Wii. Apparently I am not the only one who loves this game since it has sold over 35 million copies making it the best selling racing game of all time. With that said it truly deserves a spot in my list.
There you have it, my list of the Top 5 Best Wii Games of All Time. I know pretty much all the games in my list were first party games but I also like tons of third party Wii games too. The Wii games in my list were the ones that stuck out to me the most and were the ones that blew me away more than any others. I also found that the first party Nintendo games made the best use of the Wii controls than third party releases. If you don't agree with any of my picks then what are you waiting for? Go play some Wii games and come up with your own list of Top 5 Best Wii Games of all Time. Let me know what you think the best Wii games are.


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Council for Children's Rights
The Council for Children's Rights offers the most comprehensive range of specialized advocacy and legal services for children in North Carolina. We train lawyers and lay volunteers to participate in representing children confronting an ever-complex and already over-burdened legal system to ensure the childs needs are met whether it be in cases involving parents arguing over their custody, an unmet educational need arising out of their exceptional circumstances, compulsory exclusion from school, being committed and confined for institutional mental treatment, or delinquency charges in juvenile court. The volunteer opportunities available offer exceptional value for those who really want to make a difference.
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Parkinson's Disease Family Caregiver Series - East Sandwich, MA 5.23.12, 5.30.12, 6.6.12
Event Date: Wednesday, May, 23rd, 2012
Event Time: 4:00 to 7:00pm
The Parkinson Support Network of Cape Cod invites you to the Parkinson's Disease Family Caregiver Series. This series will take place on Wednesday evenings, May 23rd, May 30th, and June 6th from 4:00 to 7:00pm at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod.
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A Few Thoughts and Grades from Coaches Hot Seat on the Recent College Football Coach Firings, Hirings and Coaching Searches….
A Few Thoughts and Grades from Coaches Hot Seat on the Recent College Football Coach Firings, Hirings and Coaching Searches….
Tommy Tuberville HIRED at Cincinnati
Grade = B
Comments: We have FOUR WORDS for why Tommy Tuberville took a step-down in the world of college football to leave Texas Tech for Cincinnati:
From many years ago a Coaches Hot Seat Member tells the tale of playing a professional golf tournament in Odessa, Texas (about 140 miles south of Lubbock which is the home of Texas Tech) and at dinner one night with the family that was nice enough to put this CHS Member up for the week (being that the CHS Member was a poor professional golfer!) the CHS Member asked the father of the family if the wind blows all the time in West Texas and the father responded by saying:
"Son I have lived here all my life and I don't remember a day when the wind wasn't blowing!"
Hey, the people of West Texas are great BUT there is…
…that could get us to take a ANY JOB in Lubbock, Texas forget about a few million dollars a year to coach the very fine football program at Texas Tech.
From the start it was our opinion that Texas Tech was a bad fit for Tommy Tuberville who now takes his FOURTH head coaching job since 1995…
Ole Miss – 1995 – 1998
Auburn – 1999 – 2008
Texas Tech – 2010 – 2012
Cincinnati – 2013
….and just like Steve Spurrier when he took the job at South Carolina in 2005 IF Tommy Tuberville had called and asked us in 2009 if he should take the Texas Tech job we would have said…
"Be patient Tubbs. There are a couple of jobs that you will really want that are about to open up."
(As for Steve Spurrier, if Spurrier had waited for only a couple of weeks longer back in 2004 it is our opinion that Spurrier would have gotten the LSU job in the wake of Nick Saban heading to the Miami Dolphins and can you imagine the SEC and National Championships that Spurrier could have won at LSU over the past EIGHT seasons? Les Miles with tons of talent has won…
2 SEC Championships
1 National Championships
…BUT in our opinion Spurrier would have at LSU over the past EIGHT seasons won…
4 to 5 SEC Championships
2 to 3 National Championships
….if not MUCH MORE!)
As for Tommy Tuberville being hired by Cincinnati it is our opinion that Tubbs was tired of his wife and kids not being happy in West Texas and when a job came open that is literally just across the Ohio River from the state of Kentucky and only 30 or so miles away from where Tubbs' wife grew up there was NO WAY IN HELL that Tuberville was going to turn down the Cincinnati and good on Tubbs for putting his family first while at the same getting himself out of what was nothing less than a toxic situation at Texas Tech in the wake of the firing of Mike Leach.
Will Tommy Tuberville match the success of Brian Kelly and Butch Jones at Cincinnati?
Well, IF Tommy Tuberville is properly motivated to both recruit players and coach those players up then Cincinnati will continue its winning ways under Tubbs….BUT…..if Tuberville is not as motivated and committed to winning that Kelly and Jones were then the Bearcats will struggle and Tommy Tuberville will collect $10 million dollars or so over the next few years that will solidify he and his family's retirement which will probably see Tubbs go into TV work or something similar just to keep him busy in his golden years.
Bret Bielema HIRED at Arkansas
Grade = A
Comments: Back in the late 1990s when a few Coaches Hot Seat members were both young and stupid those CHS members were living and working in San Francisco and Seattle enjoying the "dot.com" bubble with the rest of America and they also happened to be sitting on "stock options" from the Internet companies they were working for that were worth a Helluva lot of money (More than the Massive Amounts of Money being paid to college head football coaches in 2012 to get them NOT to coach after they have been fired from their jobs) and while all this was going on the following very curious headline popped-up on the still very young Internet from cnet.com on January 28, 1999:
Amazon raises big money from debt offering, cnet.com
"Amazon.com today said it is offering a whopping $1.25 billion in convertible debt to institutional investors."
The Coaches Hot Seat members that saw the above headline on January 28, 1999 all asked themselves the same question to themselves?
"Why in the Hell is Amazon.com raising over $1 BILLION DOLLARS via a bond sale when their stock is trading so well and what the Hell was Amazon.com going to do with all that money?"
YES, there is a very good reason why Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is a Billionaire today and the CHS Members' "stock options" in the Internet companies they were working for vanished into thin air by the middle of 2000 when the "dot.com" bubble popped and that very good reason is that Jeff Bezos is a very Damn smart man that has the uncanny ability to see into the future and determine what his customers want and more importantly in 1999 Bezos saw Amazon.com's stock price and the stock prices of other Internet companies exploding upwards and probably thought to himself something like….
"These "dot.com" stock prices going up like this cannot go up forever and if the stock market crashes I don't want Amazon.com to be unable to go to the equity markets and raise money so we better raise a Helluva lot of money via a bond debt offering right now to have as safekeeping if times get tough in the next few years."
Well, by the spring of 2000 the "dot.com" stock bubble had indeed been popped and Amazon.com's stock price went from being over $100 Bucks a share in late 1999 to under $10 Bucks a share by the Fall of 2001 and Lo and Behold what got Amazon.com through the tough times for dot.com companies which lasted for almost three years was that it had banked over $1 Billion Dollars just for those tough times and if you had been smart enough to buy a few thousand shares of Amazon.com's stock in September 2001 when it went below $6.00 Bucks a share you would have a Helluva lot of money today with Amazon.com's stock now selling at…
What the Hell does Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos raising over $1 Billion Dollars via a bond debt offering in January 1999 have to do with Bret Bielema leaving Wisconsin for the Arkansas head coaching job?
BOTH Jeff Bezos and Bret Bielema were not only focused on the here and now BUT they BOTH were also looking down the road and like Bezos it is our opinion that Bret Bielema looked down the road for what might happen to the Wisconsin football program in the future and thought to himself something like (our opinion of course)….
"If I get a job offer at a school where I can win some games (like Arkansas) I am going to take that job because things are getting a little to "shaky and testy" around here (meaning Wisconsin of course)."
Look no further than Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez's decision to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl as yet another marker and heads-up that things are not going well with Wisconsin athletics and that one man's MASSIVE EGO is now blotting out the Sun and everything else in Madison, Wisconsin.
The TRUTH is that there are plenty of GREAT coaches that would take the Wisconsin head coaching job tomorrow and could easily coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl BUT IF Wisconsin hired a head football coach tomorrow then Barry Alvarez would not have his ass kissed for 30 plus days between now and the Rose Bowl and of course "The Great" Barry Alvarez would not be able to ride into town and prove that he is indeed "The Great One!"
Oh, Geez….
I am Barry Alvarez and I AM GREAT and if the Wisconsin football program goes down for a few years because I wouldn't hire a head football coach when there are right now dozens of GREAT coaches that would take the job tomorrow then let the Wisconsin football program go down for a few years because for Damn sure if you think I am going to pass up the chance to get my Precious Ass kissed for 30 plus days and be THE MAN again then you are wrong my boy…WRONG!
Memo to Barry Alvarez: Hire a Head Football Coach at Wisconsin and let him coach the Rose Bowl.
Oh, Barry Alvarez's MASSIVE EGO is so BIG it is blocking out the Sun and Barry can't see two feet in front of himself or even hit the toilet when peeing?
YES, that sounds about RIGHT!
ALL of the respect we had for Barry Alvarez just went flying out the window in the last few days after this Bogus "I will coach the Rose Bowl" BS and Alvarez is even having Wisconsin pay him $200,000 Plus Dollars to coach the Rose Bowl (when he is making $1 million plus a year and should do it for nothing) BUT even worse in our opinion were Bret Bielema's comments in his press conference at Arkansas about how…
…that the University of Wisconsin and AD Barry Alvarez are when it comes to paying assistant coaches and in our books here at Coaches Hot Seat the two worst things you can be in the world are…
A Pompous Arrogant Ass that believes He is God's Gift to Planet Earth
Guess what?
In our opinion Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez IS BOTH!
We will see YOU and YOUR MASSIVE EGO at the Rose Bowl Barry!
As for the next head football coach at Wisconsin….
We WOULD NOT WORK for Barry Alvarez for ANY amount of money because who in the Hell would want to work for a…
Pompous Arrogant Ass That Believes He Is God's Gift to Planet Earth?
Yes, the above are our opinions.
Gus Malzahn HIRED by Auburn
Grade = A
Comments: The TRUTH is that Auburn was just flat-out NOT going to be able to hire any of the top coaches in the game of college football because it is well-known to anyone that has been paying attention that Auburn is one of the tougher places to coach in the country and ironically at the same time it is also a place where if a coach really works his ass off and gives it his all that coach…
Will be able to WIN
Will be loved by the folks at Auburn
At this moment in Gus Malzahn's coaching career that has seen Malzahn make the stunning rise from the head football coach at Springdale High School in Arkansas in 2005 to the head football coach at Auburn University in 2012 Gus Malzahn is…
Very Damn Motivated
….to make his mark in the world of football and that desire with Malzahn and his coaching staff WILL LEAD to wins and more than likely championships at Auburn because that "desire to achieve" is the most powerful force on the Earth today.
The problem is that for far too many Head Football Coaches in Major College Football today…
30 to 40 out of the 124 I-A (FBS) Head Football Coaches
….they just flat-out do not have that "desire to achieve" within themselves anymore which the GREAT Football Coaches in the history of the Game of Football had within them during their entire coaching careers.
Memo to College Head Football Coaches: Hell, if you no longer have the "fire within you" and the "desire to achieve" as a head football coach in college football you should….
Get the Hell out of the game!
…and quit ripping off your employer and more importantly ripping-off the fans of the school and football program you are supposed to be representing in the right way and RIGHT NOW there are 30 to 40 Head Coaches in I-A (FBS) football that are doing nothing less than….
Sonny Dykes HIRED by Cal
Grade = A
Comments: Sonny Dykes is a very good football coach who is also a very good guy and it is going to be fascinating to see how a Southern and Good 'Ole Boy from Texas fits in at the University of California – Berkeley and we have no doubt it will be great fun over the next few years to watch Sonny work to rebuild Cal football and to hear from our Cal-alum friends on the progress of the program under Dykes.
With Sonny Dykes now at Cal that makes SEVEN football programs…
California, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon, Utah and Washington State
….that are running some kind of spread and/or no-huddle offense which is going to make for some long nights for Pac-12 defensive coordinators in the coming years!
Overall, we give the hiring of Sonny Dykes at Cal an "A" because Sonny is a…
Very Good Football Coach
He Has Football and Life in Perspective meaning he is consumed by football but it doesn't overwhelm him
Dykes and his staff will work very hard to rebuild the Cal program and not tick-off lots of people in the process
Memo to Sonny Dykes: Congratulations on getting the Cal Head Coaching Job!
Our only recommendation is that you and your coaching staff there at Cal keep your heads down and do your best to become a positive force on the University of California-Berkeley campus. There are lots of folks at Cal pissed-off about the budget cuts at Cal-Berkeley in recent years and the best thing that the head football coach at Cal could do right now is to make Damn sure that this football players are acting right, going to class, respecting their professors and others in the administration at Cal and of course…
Winning Lots of Football Games!
Good Luck to you Sonny Dykes!
Idaho HIRED Paul Petrino
Grade = A
Comments: Paul Petrino is a very good football coach who we were here at Coaches Hot Seat have always viewed as…
Bobby Petrino without the Attitude
….and we expect Paul Petrino to spend at least 5 years at Idaho rebuilding the Vandals football program and hopefully developing his top assistants so that if and when Paul gets and opportunity at a larger school in a few years one of those top assistants can step-up and takeover things at Idaho and keep things going just as Boise State had been doing for over a decade now.
Mark Stoops HIRED by Kentucky
Grade = B
Comments: Mark Stoops is a Stoops so he should be able to coach the game of football and now it is up to Mark Stoops to become a Head Football Coach at Kentucky which is playing in the toughest conference at all…
The SEC
A great achievement would be for Mark Stoops to get Kentucky to a bowl game in Year 2 and three or four wins in 2013 would be a nice start to Mark Stoops tenure at UK.
Dave Doeren HIRED by NC State
Grade = A
Comments: The below story about Dave Doeren interviewing and getting the Northern Illinois job always stuck with us here at CHS…
Snow can't stop new Northern Illinois coach, Andrea Adelson, ESPN CFN Blog
"Nothing was about to stop Dave Doeren from heading to DeKalb, Ill., to take a look around Northern Illinois. Not his car being snowed into his driveway. Not blizzard-like conditions.
Doeren spent two hours digging his car out Sunday morning in Madison, Wisc., before calling a snowplow for help. He drove the two hours south to the campus in a blizzard to get a feel for the town and meet people on campus.
"I know he wanted the job because yesterday he spent two hours digging himself out of his driveway," NIU athletic director Jeff Compher said."
….and after following Doeren's time at Wisconsin we were not surprised at all that Dave put up the following records at Northern Illinois:
Overall: 23 – 4
NC State is not the easiest job in the world because it takes one Helluva recruiter to get the necessary number of high-quality recruits to Raleigh to compete with the top teams in the ACC on a regular basis and now Dave Doeren gets to prove if he can do the "very tough" which is to turn the Wolfpack into a annual contender for the ACC title which it seems is "the standard" that the folks running NC State athletics expect from their football program.
Purdue HIRED Darrell Hazell
Grade = A
Comments: We didn't know much about Ohio State assistant Darrell Hazell before he took the Kent State head coaching job in 2011 and in watching Kent State play over the last two seasons we found out that Darrell Hazell can coach the game of football.
Hazell now takes on the challenge of taking Purdue football to another level which we would imagine amounts to competing for the Big Ten title every year because when one really thinks about it there is NO reason why Purdue can't play with any team in the Big Ten Conference on an yearly basis and which is what former Boilermakers head coach Joe Tiller proved could be done when he took Purdue to 10 bowl games in 12 seasons which included SIX seasons with more than EIGHT WINS and ONE Big Ten Championship.
There's your standard Darrell Hazell…
Joe Tiller
….and if you match or exceed Coach Tiller's record at Purdue you will have succeeded and be employed at the school for a long time.
Butch Jones HIRED by Tennessee
Grade = A
Comments: The RIGHT FIT is critical to the ultimate success of a college head football coach and if the University of Colorado had asked us here at Coaches Hot Seat to make a list of the….
Top 10 Coaches That Colorado Should Hire As Their Head Football Coach
….we would have quickly come up with the names of 10 football coaches and….
Butch Jones
….would NOT have been on that list.
That's not to say that Butch Jones isn't a very good football coach because Butch Jones IS…
A Very Good Football Coach
….we just never believed that Butch Jones was the RIGHT FIT for the University of Colorado and in our opinion if a school is going to spend a lot of time, effort, resources and reputation chasing down a coach then they better make Damn sure that if they make the right offer that the coach will take the job.
Sorry, for Butch Jones…
Cincinnati is a BETTER FIT
…than Colorado was and that's not saying anything negative about Colorado but only just giving our opinion on the type of coach that CU should be pursuing which begins with the odd notion that it is always best to pursue coaches that will actually take the job you are offering!
Frankly, as fans of Colorado football here at Coaches Hot Seat we were hoping that Butch Jones would take the Colorado head coaching job because for Damn sure the CLUB MED that Colorado football has been running in Boulder for the last decade would have come to an end and fast and that could have only been a GREAT thing for CU Buffs football!
As for who the University of Colorado should hire as its head coach now that Butch Jones has turned them down and is now in Knoxville we can think of…
25 Football Coaches
….from both the head coach and assistant coach ranks that would do a great job at Colorado but very few of those 25 Football Coaches that we would recommend get mentioned by the news media in the Denver/Boulder area or on any of the blogs that cover Colorado football which certainly must be getting some selective leaks from the administration at Colorado which tells us that Colorado is setting itself up for another FAIL in the head coach hiring department as we continue to hope that Colorado finds a FOOTBALL COACH to revitalize what has become one of the most pitiful excuses for a football program in the country today.
Getting back to Butch Jones being HIRED by Tennessee if Vols AD Dave Hart had asked us to draw-up a list of…
Top 10 Football Coaches
….that Tennessee should hire and we ranked those 10 Football Coaches from 1 to 10 then Butch Jones would have certainly been on that Top 10 Football Coaches that Tennessee should hire and he would have been ranked Butch Jones at….
No. 3
…behind two football coaches we are not going to name in this spot.
Memo to Fans of Tennessee Football: Calm down. Butch Jones is a very good football coach and we would rank him as a better coach than….
Phillip Fulmer
….when Fulmer took over Tennessee from an UT assistant position in 1992 and we would rank Butch Jones only slightly behind….
Johnny Majors
…who took over his alma mater in 1977 after winning a National Championship at Pitt in 1976.
Not that anyone here at Coaches Hot Seat is a historical expert on Tennessee football BUT if we were tasked with ranking the Tennessee Head Football coaches in terms of ability, skill and potential when TAKING OVER the UT head coaching position starting with General Robert Neyland who took over the Vols football program in 1926 at the age of 34 we would rank the UT head coaches this way:
1. Johnny Majors (1977 – 1992) – 116 – 62 – 8
2. Butch Jones (2013) – 0 – 0
3. Phillip Fulmer (1992 – 2008) – 152 – 52
4. Robert Neyland (1925 – 1952) – 173 – 31 – 12
5. Bill Battle (1970 – 1976) – 59 – 22 – 2
6. Doug Dickey (1964 – 1969) – 46 – 15 – 4
7. Bowden Wyatt (1955 – 1962) – 49 – 29 – 4
8. Harvey Robinson (1953 – 1954) – 10 – 10 – 1
9. Jim McDonald (1963) – 5 – 5
10. Derek Dooley (2010 – 2012) – 15 – 21
11. John Barnhill (1941 – 1945) – During WW II so doesn't really count)
12. Lane Kiffin (2009) – 7 – 5
Only time will tell if Butch Jones will move up or down the above list of the last 12 Tennessee Head Football Coaches in terms of wins, losses and championships at Tennessee BUT there is one thing we know for sure….
6 Wins A Year Does NOT Cut-It At Tennessee
7 Wins A Year Does NOT Cut-It At Tennessee
8 Wins A Year Does NOT Cut-It At Tennessee
9 Wins A Year Will Keep You Employed At Tennessee
(Phillip Fulmer averaged around 9 Wins A Year At Tennessee)
10 Wins A Year Will Solidify You At Tennessee
11 Wins A Year Will Make You A Hero At Tennessee
12 Wins A Year Will Make You A Legend At Tennessee
….and if we were Butch Jones we would be targeting 10 Plus Wins by the third year on the job (2015) and competing for the SEC Eastern Division Title or take it from us sitting 2,000 plus miles away from Knoxville…
The Tennessee Football Fans WILL NOT BE HAPPY!
Good Luck to you Butch Jones and in case you didn't know it your permanent rival game from the SEC Western Division EVERY YEAR is…
Oh, Geez, having to play Florida, Georgia, South Carolina AND Alabama EVERY YEAR would make anyone stay-up all night long trying to figure out a way to make his football team as good as possible because with the current state of Tennessee football that is FOUR LOSSES before the 2013 football season even kicks off!
Below is Tennessee's 2013 Football Schedule:
Aug. 31 Austin Peay Knoxville
Sept. 7 Western Kentucky Knoxville
Sept. 14 at Oregon Eugene, Ore.
Sept. 21 at Florida * Gainesville, Fla.
Sept. 28 South Alabama Knoxville
Oct. 5 Georgia * Knoxville
Oct. 12 Open Date
Oct. 19 South Carolina * Knoxville
Oct. 26 at Alabama * Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Nov. 2 at Missouri * Columbia, Mo.
Nov. 9 Auburn * Knoxville
Nov. 16 Open Date
Nov. 23 Vanderbilt * Knoxville
Nov. 30 at Kentucky * Lexington, Ky.
What the Hell? That is one TOUGH schedule!
As we said…
Good Luck to you Butch Jones!


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What is Beyoncé? Some might mistake her for a performer, a pop star, but we know better. We know that she's a phenomenon, a brilliant whirlwind, an aurora borealis in the sky at night — she's the thing that makes your heart race and stop, inspiring you with some cosmic, almost primordial, infinite awesomeness. Try not to freeze with anticipation, feel your heart skip one beat, two, when, on slow motion film, she pops her hip violently to the side as the beat drops, her arms spread wide to the heavens and her hair billowing as she conjures a storm around her. Just try not to wonder if you felt that pop inexplicably kick inside your bowels, or if she bruised the fabric of time with the force of her movement.
As you can tell from all the gushing we're doing, we've been swooning over the preview of Bey's Live At Roseland: Elements of 4 DVD (due for release November 29, but, you know, we've already put our pre-orders in. 5 copies each, thanks!) and have maybe even done a little wee of excitement in the process (jokes! We did a HUGE wee of excitement). OK, so we're crazy about Beyoncé. We're crazy about the release of her DVD. And we've wet our pants, too. If you've got a problem with that, we suggest you watch the preview above and then get back to us. Because you will be moved. WE GUARANTEE IT (weeing optional).
The Live At Roseland DVD features highlights from 4 nights worth of Bey performing at the Roseland Ballroom in New York on tour for her new album, 4. But that's not the most enticing part (we know, hard to believe!). The DVD also features personal moments — from Destiny's Child, to Jay-Z to her childhood, the complilation is supposed to be as intimate as it is epic. Ideed, one of our favorite moments from the preview is mini-Beyoncé thanking "the judges for picking me and my parents who I love," as adorable baby Bey bought a tiny tear to our eye.
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