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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. January 22, 2004 - Kelly Mazzante (Montoursville, Pa.) scored 29 points Thursday night in No. 7/8 Penn State's 75-56 win over No. 9/9 Minnesota, in the process breaking the Big Ten all-time scoring mark of 2,613 held by Indiana's Calbert Cheaney. Mazzante, a two-time Kodak All-American and Wade Trophy candidate, now has 2,623 career points, more than any other player in Big Ten Conference history.
The Lady Lions (14-3, 7-0) used stifling defense and forced the Golden Gophers (15-2, 4-2) into 19 turnovers on the game, a contest played in front of 9,879 at the Bryce Jordan Center, and a win that kept the Lady Lions as the only perfect team in Big Ten Conference play. The win also extended the Lady Lions' record over Top-10 teams to 4-0 this year. Junior Tanisha Wright (West Mifflin, Pa.), the reigning Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, led the defensive effort, holding Minnesota's leading scorer Lindsay Whalen to 15 points, seven under her season average. She also kept Whalen from breaking the Minnesota school scoring record, a mark Whalen is one point away from tying. Wright also added nine points, seven rebounds and seven assists, the latter both game highs.
Lady Lions Head Coach Rene Portland got quality minutes out of two freshmen, including Amanda Brown (Kennett Square, Pa.) who chipped in 10 points, and starting 6'6" center Reicina Russell (Indianapolis, Ind.) who overcame early foul trouble to convert several key second-half buckets, while also causing trouble for the Golden Gophers defensively, swatting four shots in the game.
The two teams came out hot, each shooting at a 48.1 percent clip in the first half, highlighted by Mazzante's four 3 pointers in the stanza. After a back-and-forth half, the two teams went into the break knotted at 34 points apiece. Mazzante, meanwhile, finished the game with six 3-pointers.
The Lady Lions head to the road for their next two games, beginning Sunday, Jan. 25 at Ohio State, and then Thurs. Jan. 29 at St. Joseph's before returning home Feb. 1 for a matchup against Northwestern.
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Sometimes even if you clear your cache and history Safari will still show the old web page. If you open up another browser like Camino or Firefox that does have a force refresh and then refresh Safari the changes are there. Suffice to say, as much as I love Safari, I do not use it for testing anymore and have awkwardly had to get my client to start using Camino.
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You can press Option + Command + E to empty cache and Command + R to refresh. I can't test it but should work.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - West Oso's willingness to take the court against any opponent has helped the Bears become one of the best Class 3A boys basketball teams in the state.
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Despite losing for only the third time this season, the Bears aren't going to wallow in defeat. Not with the District 31-3A campaign about to begin.
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Wednesday's effort is sure to help.
The Bears (16-3 overall) led 18-15 after the first period and went into the locker room facing a 38-38 tie. Elkins (16-5) went on to take a 62-51 lead in the third behind an 11-0 run that West Oso wasn't able to overcome.
"We knew it was going to be a tough game and I think what hurt us were the turnovers in the latter part of the third period," Flores said of the four take-aways the Knights turned into eight quick points. "When you face a program like Elkins everything has to be working. We kind of ran out gas and started turning the ball over. You can't do that against good ballclubs."
Trailing by 11 points entering the fourth period, the Bears managed to pull within 72-67 with about a minute left in the game. Elkins closed it out by making 4 of 8 free throws down the stretch.
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"I grew up in Corpus Christi so I know what West Oso is all about," said Thomas, a 1979 Ray graduate. "It's a basketball hotbed with a lot of tradition. I expected no less from them. I know they're going to do well in Class 3A."
West Oso's Raymond Robinson led all scorers with 27 points, 13 of those in the fourth period. He finished 7 of 13 from the line and also dazzled the crowd with three slam dunks, the last of which came off a steal.
Andrue Haywood finished with 15 points for the Beards, while Willie Harper added 14. Haywood and Harper each hit three 3-pointers.
Elkins had only one player reach double figures in scoring, but had 10 of the 14 on the roster find the basket. Willie Rogers led the way with 19 points, followed by Hollis Robinson with nine.
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Elkins: Chance Allen 2, Torian Coleman 7, Willie Rogers 19, Branford Jones 7, Kenny Bangmora 5, Gevon Jackson 6, Mark Cannon 5, Hollis Robinson 9, Adedayo Okanlawon 2, Aaron Harwell 7, Deric Dudley 7.
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Hurricane season is a year-round challenge for local emergency management officials charged with coordinating evacutation of an estimated 300,000 vehicles.
Monday morning, officials with the Texas Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, City of Corpus Christi and the Corpus Christi Police Department unveiled an additional feature in the city's plan-- a short strip of on-ramp pavement that will make it easier to turn the flow of southbound traffic on U.S. Interstate 37 north.
Diverting traffic in what is normally the wrong direction on the freeway is called contraflow and has been a staple of the local evacuation plan in the area for nearly five years.
After either Nueces County Judge Loyd Neal or Corpus Christi Mayor Henry Garrett calls for a mandatory evacuation, DPS and highway department officials are charged with clearing the southbound lanes of the interstate from Pleasanton south to Corpus Christi and diverting northbound traffic back onto them, said Highway Patrol Capt. Cary Mathews, who also serves as the district disaster coordinator for this region.
Along with the new on-ramp, the city also would convert off-ramps at four other locations along the route to allow access to the lanes. To get off the freeway, there would be two urban exits at Violet Road and Carbon Plant Road, highway department officials said.
Before the new access points, cars could not get onto what are typically southbound lanes until they were north of Corpus Christi near the Nueces River Bridge.
If a hurricane bears down on the city, emergency management officials have the task of swiftly moving an estimated 300,000 vehicles out of town.
The improvements to the contraflow system nearly doubles the outflow of vehicles out of town, Mathews said.
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Senior punter Kollin Kahler has been named 2013 CoSIDA Academic All-District announced CoSIDA Thursday afternoon. It marks the second-straight season that Kahler has received the honor.
The school's all-time career punt average leader, Kahler has been the true definition of a student-athlete over the course of his career receiving accolades both on the field and in the classroom. A 2011 honorable mention All-Southland Conference selection, Kahler became the first Cardinal to receive preseason first-team All-Southland Conference honors since the return of football to Lamar. Currently among the league leaders averaging nearly 41 yards per punt, Kahler is making a push for more postseason honors following this season.
Last month, Kahler was a recipient of the prestigious David J. Beck Fellowship. Awarded to only two Lamar students each year, the fellowship rewards outstanding academic achievement and allows top students to further challenge themselves with unique opportunities for undergraduate research and creative study. Kahler will use the fellowship to study the advances of joint replacement surgery in Dublin, Ireland over the summer.
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The Ambassadors of Jackson County have a new slate of officers.
"The Ambassadors are the 'Good Will Arm' of the Chamber," says Julie Spiro, executive director of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. "While all the ambassadors work and have their own careers and businesses, they graciously give of their time to assist others in the business community. Our Ambassadors spend time following up with members, encouraging them to attend Chamber events and get involved in what is going on in Jackson County."


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One of my friends, a former Marine, a Vietnam Veteran and recipient of 3 Purple Hearts is fighting a new battle, for the life of his 8 1/2 year old grandson. Max Vasquez (Big Max)'s grandson Little Max (Jedi Max) is fighting for his life.
Big Max is a member of my local Hays County CenTex AMVETS Post 115, he's also a member of the VFW, the Patriot Riders and the Vietnam Veterans of America. Big Max has a heart bigger than life and he is always giving of himself to help others. On Monday Max started leading more than 200 injured veterans and their supporters on a seven-day, 385-mile bicycle ride from San Antonio to Fort Worth.
NEGU = Never Ever Give Up!! That's Jedi Max's Motto.
Max is an 8 1/2 year old boy that is engaged in the fight of his life against an aggressive type of cancer.
Max is your typical eight year old boy, fun loving, video playing, lego building, Star Wars kind of kid. His mom, Jay, is a huge Beatles fan with a wonderfully warped sense of humor. Max's dad, Scott, is an Active Duty Medic in the US Army with recent tours to Iraq. Max loves his adorable little sister, Katie.
Life decided to throw a curve ball in May 2012, when he started to get headaches. A scan of his brain revealed a mass. Within a very short period of time they were scheduled for surgery to remove the mass, which they would soon learn to be an aggressive form of cancer – Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM).
Chemotherapy treatments, frequent doctor appointments, and all things medical soon consumed their days. Somehow though, this family of four seemed to take this challenge on in a way that has amazed many. Things seemed to be a little less eventful toward the end of 2012. January 2013 rang in with good news coming near the end of the month that the scans were clear.
Fast forward to March.
March 2013 … mere weeks following the clear scan … another scan would reveal four new tumors in his brain. March 7, 2013 confirmation was received via MRI that his sweet 8 year old spine contains tumors.
With the news of Max's latest challenge, his mom asked him where he would want to travel to if he were able. He stated he wanted to see the Eiffel Tower with his family. Quickly, we have gotten to work and organized donation sites to get Max and his family to Paris as quickly as possible. Within three days, over $7ooo has been raised, spreading awareness by word of mouth, and embracing social media … blogging, and facebook. We are asking for help in getting Max's story out, in the hope that others will help them too.
As of March 8, Max and Katie were home from school, embarking on a homeschooling adventure. Both Jay and Scott are now home indefinitely.
You can help "Jedi" Max by donating to the medical relief for set up to help pay for Max's continuing fight for his life.
Please join us in Max's fight against cancer. Please like his page, http://www.facebook.com/
Thank you!!


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Georgia law generally doesn't prohibit merchants from asking that consumers provide personal information in order to complete a transaction, with some very limited exceptions. When a customer pays for a purchase by personal check, the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act specifies the information a business may collect for identification purposes. It states that a merchant may not imprint or copy the customer's credit or debit card number as a condition of purchase by check. However, the merchant may still:
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The legality of this practice depends on the terms and conditions of the particular plan, and on how the seller discloses these terms and conditions to the buyer. Under the Federal Trade Commission's Negative Option Rule, which the State of Georgia has adopted, the seller must disclose the following terms to you in a clear and conspicuous manner:
If a business doesn't comply with the Negative Option Rule, the consumer isn't obligated to pay for the products or services associated with the contract.
If you were enrolled in a negative option plan without your knowledge, and the terms and conditions of the plan were not described in a clear and conspicuous manner, you may file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission by visiting ftc.gov or calling 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); or the Georgia Department of Law's Consumer Protection Unit by visiting our website at www.consumer.ga.gov or calling 404-651-8600.
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Twins-Rays rained outFORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Samuel Deduno entered spring training with an outside chance to make the Minnesota Twins' rotation. His performance at the World Baseball Classic might have given him an edge.
Deduno is scheduled to return to Minnesota's spring training camp Thursday after helping the Dominican Republic beat Puerto Rico 3-0 in the championship game of the WBC. Deduno pitched five innings of two-hit ball to earn the win.
With less than two weeks until the start of regular season, the Twins now will figure out how to fit Deduno into exhibition games as he rejoins the competition for the fifth spot in the rotation.
He is up against Cole De Vries, P.J. Walters and Liam Hendriks.
The Twins and Tampa Bay Rays were rained out Wednesday.


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Woman and Fan
Woman and Fan, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
In a tourist shop selling hand made lace in Trinidad, Cuba I noticed the owner's apartment behind the store. I asked permission to set up my tripod and make this photo that includes the owner's mother.
I made two exposures, one for the comparatively dark interior spaces, and one for the lighter exterior elements like the fan. Part of what appealed to me about the composition was the consistency of the teal color across the fan, bedspreads and mirror behind the old woman.
It's worth observing the sparseness of this home—even though the family is prosperous by Cuban standards.
Teatro Tomas Terry
Teatro Tomas Terry, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
Tomas Terry made his first fortune nursing sick slaves back to health, then selling them. He went on to invest in sugar and become one of the wealthiest men in Cuba and indeed the world.
Terry's sons built this theater in his memory on the central square in Cienfeugos, Cuba. In the 1800s and first part of the twentieth century luminaries such as Sarah Bernhardt and Enrico Caruso performed at the Teatro Tomas Terry.
Tower Play
Inside the Tower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
These two images are of the tower above the Palacio Ferrer in Cienfeugos, Cuba. I shot both the interior and exterior views with a 10.5mm digital fisheye—then combined each with a mirrored version of itself. Depending on how you look at things, the effect is disorienting, panoramic, sexy—or merely abstract.
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Alter Ego
Alter Ego, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
I photographed this gourd in Joseph's studio. It seems the inner gourd has the soul and shadow of a dinosaur—aided and abetted by some good sushi and a white eye added to the shadow in Photoshop.
Health Care in Cuba
In a sidebar titled Health without Wealth the Lonely Planet travel guide to Havana gushes about the impressive achievements of the Cuban health care system. Not to just pick on Lonely Planet, Michael Moore in his documentary Sicko presents Cuban health care as greatly superior to American health care—at far less cost.
As a self-employed person with four kids I've naturally had trying moments dealing with health insurance bureaucrats in the United States, not to mention figuring out how to pay for coverage. My personal view is that anything other than a single payer medical system is ultimately unworkable, and we are nuts to interpose health insurance companies with a profit motive between ourselves and our medical needs. Tying health insurance coverage to employment is also crazy in my opinion.
So I'm no fan of the American health care system. Before leaving for Cuba, I tried to figure out how health care could be as good as some sources indicated in a third world country with material shortages so bad that soap, toilet paper, and analgesics (such as aspirin) are in short supply. I would love to be able to report that the Cuban health care system is as good as Michael Moore says it is—but it just ain't so.
My family has two premature kids (Julian and Katie Rose) and we've had four high-risk pregnancies. So I was very interested to visit the high-risk pregnancy ward shown in the photo in Trinidad, Cuba. I brought a duffle bag of baby clothes and Tylenol to Cuba. After giving these to the director, I was able to look around and snap a few photos.
High Risk Pregnancy Ward in Cuba, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
If you look at the photo, you'll see that things are reasonably clean (not apparently true of all Cuban hospitals). However, there are no medications, no IV drips, no monitoring equipment and not even a thermometer. The ward provides iron bed frames, you bring your own sheets. The only thing on offer is bed rest.
None of my children would have survived in Cuba.
It seems true that Cuban medical schools produce numerous doctors (many of these trained physicians are exported to Venezuela in exchange for oil). It's free for Cubans to visit a doctor, but there's a grave shortage of anything one of these doctors might prescribe.
In the Moore film, several 9/11 clean-up workers who were dissatisfied with their medical care were invited to Cuba to be treated "like average Cubans." In fact, these workers were taken to one of the exhbition wards in a Havana hospital reserved for the elite, or for foreigners with hard currency.
There is some medical tourism to Cuba (particularly from South America) and the clinics available to foreign tourists are clean, with doctors and nurses waiting for tourists to show up. But these are not the facilities the average Cuban sees. Nor are even the most basic medical necessities available in drug stores, making the fancy asthma inhaler purchased cheaply at a Havana drugstore in Sicko quite a miracle indeed.
In a CNN interview, Moore suggests that people should get off his back regarding the Cuban segment in Sicko because the success or failure of the Cuban medical system is not as important to his premise as the success of health care in Canada, France or the United Kingdom. He's got a point, but Sicko is a film that cost nine million dollars to make and has taken in more than twenty-four million dollars. Moore was snookered or is lying, or both—and it's just business that he is sticking to his guns and not admitting he erred.
The Cuban government boasts of preventive care, longevity, and low infant mortality rates. It's hard to place much faith in claims of preventive care in a country in which smoking is rampant, and more-or-less officially condoned. The claims of longevity are essentially unverifiable and based on statistics from a government that is notorious for its propaganda machine. The low infant mortality per live birth rate is probably a skewed statistic, with a built in bias because of the practice of aborting all fetuses with any signs of trouble, and because of the way live births are counted. (My daughter Katie Rose, born at 24 weeks gestational age, probably would not have counted as a live birth in Cuba.)
It's great that there is universal health care in Cuba, and it is also great that there are so many trained doctors available. It must be incredibly frustrating for these doctors not to be able to provide even the most basic health care needs because of material shortages.
Related story: Fifty Years after the Revolution.
Nicky Is Eight
Nicky is Eight, photo by Harold Davis.
We recently had a great time celebrating Nicky's eighth birthday with family and a few of his friends. Nicky is such a great guy.
It is not an original observation, but the years sure do pass swiftly. It seems only yesterday that he was quite little—but still smiling, because that is Nicky.
Katie Rose enjoyed the birthday party. She's at the stage where the wrapping paper and box are just as exciting as the present inside.
Great reasons to be thankful!
Looking Up
Looking Up, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
This is looking up the spiral staircase in the Edificio Cuervo Rubio in La Habana, Cuba. Here's the view looking down the same staircase.
Stair to Heaven
Stair to Heaven, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
This is an abstraction created in the Photoshop Darkroom from Twisted Stairs. Here's an earlier post about some of the technical steps I take to create my abstractions.
Map of a Life
Map of a Life, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
I don't know very much about this old woman. I photographed her in Las Terrazas, Cuba—part ecology preserve and part Potemkin village attempting to show off the "wonderfulness" of Cuba 50 years after the revolution.
I don't know much about her, but it seems to me that the lines on her face and the look in her eyes comprise a map of her life. She has seen many things, not all of them happy.
After Cataract Surgery
After Cataract Surgery, photo by Harold Davis. View this image lagrer.
This is my mom Virginia Davis, world traveller and distinguished fiber artist. She recently had cataract surgery, and can now see 20/20 for distance vision out of both eyes without glasses.
Edificio Cuervo Rubio
Edificio Cuervo Rubio, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
This is a fisheye shot looking down the staircase in the Edificio Cuervo Rubio, an art deco apartment building at Calles 21 y O in the Vedado section of Havana, Cuba across the street from the Hotel Nacional. Like most of the housing stock in La Habana, this gourgeous building has seen better days. But the elegant design of days gone by remains, and it is in far better shape than many other apartment buildings I photographed. There's a marble statue in the lobby beneath a circular shaft heading up to the roof; I'll be posting a photo at some point.
If you look carefully, you can see a chained bicycle at the bottom of the spiral staircase.
Other Cuban staircases: Back Stair, Twisted Stairs; related images: Endless Stairs, Endless Doors.
Exposure data: Nikon D300, 10.5mm digital fisheye, 15 seconds at f/20 and ISO 100, tripod mounted.
Cover Model
Cover Model, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
In Cuba, posing for tourist photos is a desirable profession—and a good way to get convertible pesos. All it takes is to be "sweetly picturesque in rags" and official permision. The government license comes with a special plastic ID card that savvy photographers make sure is tucked out of sight when they take those "authentic" photos of Cubans. Of course, almost everyone will pose for you on the black market even if they are not licensed.
You can see that this Lonely Planet cover model found in La Habana Vieja may be sitting down; but he is not resting on his laurels.
Malecon Moon
Malecon Moon, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
I shot this view of the Malecon in Havana, Cuba from the small bluff that the Hotel Nacional sits on. (More about the Hotel Nacional later.)
The two minute exposure gave the clouds a chance to spread out and show their colors in the moonlight. This exposure would have blown out the Malecon itself in the foreground of the photo, so I used a layer mask and a gradient to combine in a darker version shot at 20 seconds.
You can see a row of people living their life along the Malecon sea wall. But the long exposure has "flattened" them in some strange visual way—so even the people seem to be merely accessory to the landscape.
Twisted Stairs
Twisted Stairs, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
This is a fisheye shot looking up from beneath the bell tower stairs at the Revolutionary Museum in Trinidad, Cuba.
At the entrance to the empty museum, I asked the guard—who had been sitting out in the plaza—whether I could go up the tower before I paid my one C.U.C. (convertible peso) admission. I had no interest in another set of rooms filled with memorablia from the revolutionary era. I did want to climb the tower. But when I got the to point shown in the photo there was a barrier across the stairs. So I went back down and asked for my money back. The guard came up and removed the barrier, asking me to be sure not to ring the bells.
The view in this photo has definite shades of Escher, but stay tuned: Playing with the image is in my plans.
Check out A Spiral Model of Creativity, the final article in my Becoming a More Creative Photographer series on Photo.net. Next month I start a creative Photoshop Darkroom column on Photo.net.
Fifty Years after the Cuban Revolution
Museo de la Revolucion, formerly the Presidential Palace. View this image larger.
Prologue to a Revolution
On a humid and unseasonably hot day in March of 1957, forty-two men armed with sub-machine guns, carbines and automatic pistols crammed into the back of a small delivery truck. Two other vehicles, a Buick sedan and a Ford roadster, each with four armed men in shirt sleeves, accompanied the van. The assault on the Presidential Palace was on.
Inside the dark and hot van the men debated about contemporary art. One was a painter of realistic scenes. Another painted only abstracts. Comrades in revolutionary arms, they could not agree about the goals or methods of painting and bitterly fought the academic battle between realism and modernism. Another pair of men played chess on a small set by the dim light filtering in through the crack between the rear doors, with onlookers kibitzing in whispers.
At the Presidential Palace, dictator Fulgencio Batista waited in the Salon de los Espejos (the Hall of Mirrors), reading The Day Lincoln was Shot by Jim Bishop to pass the time. Brutal tyrant and pawn of the American crime syndicate, Batista knew the attack was coming, if not exactly when (he expected a night assault). In the corrupt climate of Havana it was impossible to keep a secret, and an informer had given the outlines of the conspiracy away in the torture chambers of Batista's secret police.
Salon de los Espejos (Hall of Mirrors). View this image larger.
Through sheer shock and surprise, the first wave of the assault overpowered the guards at the gates of the Presidential Palace and proceeded up the marble stairs to the Hall of Mirrors on the second floor. But Batista had fled to the upper reaches of the Presidential Palace, sealing the way behind him. Meanwhile, the guards regrouped outside the palace. Most of the rebels died on the marble stairs of the Presidential Palace. The blood ran down in streams into the neighboring park, where bullets chipped nearby buildings and accidentally killed an American tourist. Of the thirty-five men who made it into the palace, three made it out alive.
By the way, Fidel Castro had nothing to do with the assault on the Presidential Palace. At the time, Fidel was doing his guerilla thing in the mountains listening to the news on his scratchy short-wave radio. "Comrades," he announced, "Something big is happening in La Habana." He later deplored the action as a useless waste of human life.
The Granma Memorial
Today, fifty years after Fidel toppled Batista from power, the elegant Palacio Presidencial, with interior decoration by Tiffany, has become the Museo de la Revolucion. Inside the Museum of the Revolution there's no sign of the brutal struggle that raged on the symmetrical marble stairs beneath the Tiffany dome. But out the backdoor is the second half of the Revolutionary Museum, with artifacts from the revolution treated with the reverence normally reserved for relics associated with holy saints. Here you'll find the delivery van the rebels used in their attack on the Presidential Palace, each bullet hole lovingly coated and painted to preserve them against the oxidation that is normal to the climate.
Preserved bullet holes in the delivery truck. View this image larger.
You'll also find an entire ship preserved behind glass. This is the Granma, the boat that brought the Castro brothers, Che Guevara, and other revolutionaries to Cuba from Mexico in 1956. Purchased for $15,000 from an American couple, the Granma left Tuxpan, Mexico with 82 men and a cache of arms.
It was a terrible trip, plagued with confusion about which way to go, sea-sickness and overcrowding. The engine broke down, and needed an overhaul at sea.
Arriving later than expected, the Granma missed the expected rendezvous point, and landed in a swamp. The beached Granma was spotted by a government plane, and the expedition was betrayed by the party's guide. The few survivors tried desperately to stay alive. Guevara attempted to extract water from a puddle with his asthma apparatus. Castro, alone with two of his men, sucked sugar cane stalks and hid in a cane field for several days.
It is nothing short of a miracle that from this inauspicious beginning came a successful revolution. Miracles are associated with beatitude, and beatitude with holy relics. It fits the pattern to see the Granma at the Revolutionary Museum, polished to the nines—one of the few things in Havana with fresh paint that isn't deteriorating—sitting under a crumbling roof near the bullet-pock-marked delivery truck, the tank Castro used during the Bay of Pigs invasion, and other relics. The truth is that the level of organization shown in both the Granma expedition and the assault on the Presidential Palace was pretty Keystone cops. Woody Allen had it about right in Bananas.
Che and Camilo
The exhibits in the Museum of the Revolution start on the third floor, in the former Presidential suite that Batista fled to when the rebel assault came. Behind glass cases you'll see documentation of the incredible brutality of the Batista regime, and detailed diagrams of the battle plans of various rebel operations. Some cases include guns the rebels used, the boots they wore, and the radios they used. Captions are in Spanish and (very) fractured English.
In one open room there's a life-sized diorama of Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos in the Cuban jungle. I had the feeling that if the technology had been available and affordable this would have been animated with the sounds of the jungle and distant Batista aircraft bombardment, smoking pistols and all, like something Disney would do.
Diorama of Che and Camilo in the "jungle". View this image larger.
Castro seems to have had a penchant and knack for converting his military commanders with prestige that might rival his own into martyrs. It's well known that Che went (or was sent) to Bolivia, where he was ambushed. What are purportedly Che's bones now rest under a monument near Santa Clara, Cuba.
Che's visage is a visual constant in modern Cuba, and each year a new Che calendar is seen everywhere. The hagiography of both Castro and Che benefits greatly from the great photography of Alberto Korda, Castro's staff photographer; although Che does not rate highly in my book as pin-up material, apparently there are those that think otherwise.
Camilo is less well known outside of Cuba than Che. One day in Havana I witnessed long lines of school children and soldiers marching down to the harbor to drop white flowers in the ocean in memory of this martyr, one of the most important revolutionary warriors, dead more than fifty years.
The story I heard in Cuba was that Camilo had been ordered in 1959 to fly to return with a traitor [presumably Hubert Matos]. Camilo disappeared without a trace, despite a massive search for any trace of the hero or his plane.
You don't have to be a student of Jungian archetypes, Bruno Bettelheim on fairytales or the purges following the Russian revolution to recognize this story as familiar and inherently implausible. As Hugh Thomas puts it in Cuba, "Speculation about Cienfuegos' death has continued. …No doubt this is one of the many matters that history will elucidate…"
Why the continued emphasis on revolution?
A revolutionary government that has been in power for fifty years is oxymoronic, and one has to ask oneself about the point of this particular example of Orwellian doublespeak. The label may have made a little sense during the years when Castro had the world's third largest standing army and was attempting to export revolution to other third world countries. But now the continuous epithet of "revolutionary" applied to the authoritarian government in Cuba, along with the hagiographic iconography of the revolutionary generation, can only be seen as an attempt at justification for the regime's existence and an attempt to rationalize the failures of the society the regime has spawned.
Cuba is a beautiful country with warm, welcoming and educated people. It's also a land of contradictions, a place of food shortages and bread lines where vast acres of fertile land lie uncultivated.
Cuba is a banana republic with a back story of gangsterismo and an overlay of dysfunctional Stalinism.
As an American, I feel bad about missed opportunities—and the substantial role that ignorance, avarice and greed have played in America's long relationship with Cuba. On the other hand, it's clear that the problems in Cuba run far deeper than the American embargo.


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Alicia Garcia of Mt. Angel, Oregon is very thankful to the Scholarships for Oregon Latinos for the opportunity it has given her to further her education.
SOL, whose mission is to provide educational opportunities at Chemeketa Community College for Hispanic/Latino students so that they can become contributing members of society and leaders in their communities was founded in December of 1994 by six Latino community members. "I am very thankful to the SOL scholarship program because it has changed my life. It has also given me many opportunities that I never knew existed. This experience has provided me with networking opportunities and with the chance to meet many wonderful people. If it wasn't for this opportunity I don't think I would be in the same track and I probably wouldn't be attending Willamette University. This opportunity has kept me motivated to keep trying hard and to follow my dreams," said Garcia.
Garcia first heard about SOL while attending John F. Kennedy High School. At first she had an interest in attending Western Oregon University but she decided to apply for the SOL scholarship because she wanted to keep all her options open. The scholarship is available to students pursuing a 4-year degree in: business, education, science, engineering, math, law, medicine, computer science, nursing, EMT or journalism. The selection committee also requires that the applicant complete fifty hours of community service and be bilingual. The student must also maintain a 3.0 G.P.A. and must agree to utilize his/her education in advancing the interests of the Latino community. Garcia has been able to perform these duties. Her community service was performed at the Mt. Angel Youth Center and at the Mano a Mano Family Center.
This fall Garcia will be able to attend Willamette University. "I was awarded $15,000 by the SOL transfer scholarship. I am attending Willamette University because of their wonderful business program and because it's close to home." Keeping a good standing has paid off for Garcia. "School has been easy for me because I have had the support of my family. They tell me not to work so hard and my boss has been very understanding too. I also know the places to go for help if I need it at Chemeketa," she added. She is also very involved in her community. She has been a member of Latinos Unidos Siempre for one year and is also a board member. She is a member of the Chemeketa Community College Foundation and is a liaison to the Oregon Criminal Justice Reform Coalition.
Garcia would like to one day become a stockbroker. She would like to volunteer her services to low income families to help them plan for a better future. Her greatest inspiration has been her mother who has always work hard to provide her children with love and all the support they needed. Like many young students Garcia once felt like she couldn't afford to go to a private university but thanks to all the opportunities next school year she will be attending one of the most prestigious schools in Oregon. "I would like to let other Latinos know to look for opportunities and options. Don't ever give up and always try hard. Don't let an education slip away and always think about your future. And when you need help look for resources and never discard private colleges," she added.
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Part 1: Launchers
CONCEPTS: Elastic potential energy, kinetic energy
BACKGROUND: The potential energy of a stretched rubber band turns into
kinetic energy of a projectile when a sling shot is released.
The KE of the launched object can be measured from the effect on a box that catches it
and pushed across a smooth surface (see other KE activities).
EQUIPMENT NEEDED: A board approx. 1" x 6" x 2 ft (make your own design),
rubber bands, plastic sheeting, strong tape, eg. duct tape, nails, s
mall balls of various mass: tennis, handball, golf ball, baseball etc., weights of any kind
ACTIVITY: Construct a rubber band powered ball launcher.
The cradle for the launched balls can be made by applying duct tape to some plastic sheet
and cutting out an oval shape as indicated. Punch holes in the ends with a paper punch
to attach the rubber bands.
Measure the elastic potential energy the rubber band launcher has by holding it vertically
and stretching the rubber band by resting a weight on it.
Mark the end of stretch for one weight and then another for twice as much weight
(this will be the point for twice as much elastic potential energy).
Cut up a cardboard box to act as a catcher for the launched balls.
Experiment with the design of your catcher until you get one that contains the ball with a
minimum of bouncing around.
The distance that the box is pushed by the ball is a measure of the ball's kinetic energy.
Examine the effects of different balls and different lengths of rubber band stretch, etc.
CONNECTIONS: Bows and arrows, sling shots, etc.
Part 2: Rubber band racers
CONCEPTS: Elastic potential energy, kinetic energy, force, friction
EQUIPMENT NEEDED: thread spools and other spools of any type
(eg. from wire, etc., or, cans with lids, rubber bands, sticks, washers)
ACTIVITY: Have students construct
and race these wind up toys:
Many variations on this design are possible. Urge student to experiment with different designs.
Larger racers can be made from cans with replaceable lids (eg. coffee cans instead of spools.
Part 3: Toys that work with elastic PE
CONCEPTS: elastic potential energy, measurement, kinetic energy
BACKGROUND: Many common toys store elastic potential energy in springs, rubber bands
or compressed air.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Toys such as: dart guns, helicopter guns, water rockets, squirt guns,
especially the kind you can pump up.
ACTIVITY: Study how the toys work. Collect and analyze data on how many pumps,
wind-ups or whatever, lead to how much of a result.