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Catherine Opie makes photographs. It sounds trivial to say so, but it means something these days. She squeezes the heart of American cities down to sixteen inches in height. Her frequent use of black and white updates a long tradition of photojournalism and Depression-era visual poetry for an age that struggles to recover its downtowns. She lets the white of bare walls and sky become shades of gray.
Christina McPhee makes digital prints, to the point where one might not easily imagine her and Opie in the same world. They convey detail and color with perfect clarity, and they layer memory upon memory on an enormous scale. When colors vanish, they do nothing to cushion the impact of black and white. They translate easily into video, where the fragmentation builds into unspoken narratives. They recall art media and mass media alike more than old-fashioned journalism. No wonder she can intersperse them with abstract drawings, to complete the story.
Both, however, map disappearing communities and the lives they held. Both allude to the urban disaster at Ground Zero, without showing it at all. Both are at their best in facing the facts. It helps to consider Opie and McPhee together, along with brief mention of still another urban scene after 9/11, from Nathan Lyons. (You may see this review as an extended postscript to a two-part article on McPhee's digital landscape.)
Catherine Opie's world looks barely fit for human life, especially when it contains people. The landscape and people of the South, however empty or strange, for William Eggleston will never hold the same menace. Her glum, muscular portraits and family pictures would scare anyone away, and perhaps they have. Her landscapes have little pedestrian traffic. Fragments of architecture often interrupt them, as if hurriedly left behind.
In Opie's "American Cities," the flight might well ended long ago. Her photographs have more breathing room now but precious little air. The myriad dead ends around Wall Street seem to have cut it short. So does the ceiling of a nearly empty garage or a cantilevered roof over open space in Chicago. Frontal views exaggerate their width and thrust them out of the picture plane.
History has invested a view toward the future One World Trade Center with more meaning. Yet Opie's other streets stand just as barren, without even Oliver Stone to populate them. Even when a river view offers open sky, low clouds and evening light press down heavily.
Opie's latest photographs feel more composed in the sense of carefully arranged as well, and their asymmetry often hits one only slowly. A single shot might pair a church and a high rise. The glass on both façades could almost pass for stone walls. Another photograph tethers the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis to the spans of an old steel bridge. It also relegates the idealism of Eero Saarinen to a distant corner—quite literally the single point of light in a very dark sky.
It says something that Opie presents the confining garage ceiling and welcoming canopy as parallels. It says something, too, that I cannot say for sure whether the latter isolates elements of the Prairie School or the lobby of an office tower. I found myself puzzling out the light—or even the reality. I wanted to decipher the time of day. I wanted to figure out what could have driven away the cars and people. The twentieth century does not seem to have done a lot for these cities.
Opie insists that anything requires careful staging, even emptiness. Zwelethu Mthethwa does much the same in South Africa. That attitude can feel more than a little hokey at times, even in her seriously quiet views of American beaches. Yet it pays off. She presents not so much a commentary on Modernism and society as a study in quiet and unease.
The few color prints show Lake Michigan, with the horizon line roughly across the middle and rudely horizontal. The two blue rectangles in each could recall the calm of a Mark Rothko. Then again, they could just as well present blunt masses. The play between entry points and dead ends also makes me think of Thomas Struth street scenes.
For some, her view of Lower Manhattan will offer the most resonance and disquiet. I prefer the entire gallery room devoted to enclosed, second-floor skyways. They make explicit the idea of people doing their best to avoid exposure to air, and the mismatched buildings to either side extend the broken symmetry. Almost none displays anything more than glass and structural support. And naturally the exception allows a poster to proclaim "God Bless America."
Nathan Lyons also tackles city streets before and after 2001. As so often, Silverstein Photography pulls off a thorough survey of a career I hardly knew existed. In contrast to Opie, Lyons often settles for less than memorable compositions and so benefits when subject matter takes over. He started working before 1960, but my favorite series turns to America's attempts at coping with disaster. It contains those displays of the flag that sprang up everywhere after 9/11.
Every so often, Lyons indulges in irony. The flag abuts a magazine cover's display of flesh. Mostly, however, they stick to close-ups, as if only formal constraints could keep the emotional pressures on politics under control.
Christina McPhee, too, understands the irony of crowded cities with too many memories. She has photographed San Francisco streets. She has documented her own travels through northern and southern California. However, no one would mistake her work for street photography. One has trouble classifying it as photography at all, and why bother?
A print is a photograph, of course, and a photograph exists as a multiple. With her prints and videos, however, a digital medium seems to have a still more complex history. That history might start with a single color, black.
McPhee's digital prints do what glazes on canvas cannot. They appear not glossy or subdued, but clear, unreflective, and pitch dark. For all their size, one cannot mistake them for the fashionably large, static photographs of Jeff Wall or Andreas Gursky. Rather, like Barbara Ess or Barbara Crane, they contain fragmentary images on a tremendous range of scale, down to that of traditional photography or even contact prints. They flood the gallery walls with light, deep color, and sheer information. I had never seen black so transparent to the light.
They also record a flood. "La Conchita Mon Amour" documents the aftermath of debris flows that devastated a small coastal town in southern California and remain visible to this day. Built on a mudslide, La Conchita has had its share of disasters, most recently in 2005, when rains washed out the roads and ten people died. McPhee mimes another kind of disturbed flow as well—of observation in real time. She returned to the site at one-month intervals, with its crushed cars, vacant yards, improvised gardens, and battered homes. She calls the community's gestures a "vernacular shrine to the dead," and she could be speaking of her work, too.
Her overlaid images can look at one glance like landscapes, at another like personal histories. What looks at first, too, like the sheer blackness of acetate hides traces of intense color. Compared to past digital work, she allows herself more explicit naturalism, but also the appearance of rubble. I imagined a nonsite by Robert Smithson pouring its contents off the wall. Susan Sontag asked whether a "straight" photographer's single point of view merely uses the suffering of others, but can an artist's transformation of the scene avoid that danger, or must it add yet another appropriation? Perhaps both, but at least it can pour out the fragments so that others can decide.
Above all, I imagined the human experiences buried and lost. Six months earlier, McPhee appeared in a winter group show "Persona-Personae." I liked the title for the challenge of pronouncing it alone. However, it also corresponds to a recurring theme of modern and recent art, at least since Cindy Sherman in all her disguises and since the ego fixation of Lucas Samaras. Perhaps it goes back even before Pablo Picasso's empty masks. Such theorists as Jacques Derrida ask one to see every presence as a "supplement," every representation as a trace—and digital art promises to bury the traces ever and ever deeper.
The title feels particularly right for McPhee. She got the long central wall for five images that never sit still for long, and I cannot begin to locate all their personae. I greatly admired several past artists at the gallery for their polished appropriations of late Modernism. Perhaps I had minor reservations about how the component parts add up. However, with McPhee's digital collage the disconnect makes a dynamic subject in itself.
The construction of the prints alone suggests a breakdown in time and succession—what Gilles Deleuze in describing New Wave film has called "beyond the movement-image." They make use of both overlay and juxtaposition, sometimes of repeated images or close variations. I again think of contact sheets or a film strip, and of course the exhibition title puns (badly) on Hiroshima Mon Amour, the film by Alain Renais. Blackness further labels the prints as a representation of the process and materials behind their own making. If this sounds like a hint of Modernism within the frenzy of the media age, so be it. The photos began with a medium-format or digital camera, but they work well, too, as abstraction or as new media.
In fact, an abstract drawing comes between each pair of prints, and a video plays along with them. McPhee's pencil swirls across the page in loose clumps of curves, leaving plenty of white space. They could stand for successive moments in crossing a physical landscape. The video ticks off a further collage of photographs, like a metronome.
I like having the media displayed together, interrupting one another, and responding to one another. I have argued that a medium can inform the work of art, but also that one cannot reduce a medium to its essence or "message." Besides, one should not see prints this alive as a single, overcrowded composition. One has to linger over the spaces that others have left behind. During McPhee's gallery talk to accompany the exhibition, a listener wished that more flowers offered hope amid the bleakness. I wanted to insist on the luminosity of her blacks and their relationship to the drawings' fields of white, as spaces for uncertainty and hope.
Reference to a film strip indeed makes me think of a detective, holding the evidence up the light. Does film noir often stand for a heightened elegance, a lost world of fedoras and leggy brunettes? In her gallery talk McPhee spoke of the allure of trauma, and in past video she has herself presented a natural disaster as a crime scene. Looking at the sites here, one starts to wonder where all the people went.
One can hear their unseen presences in the video, which incorporates muffled voices and the harsh sound of traffic along the Pacific Coast Highway. All three media, however, linger over absences, from empty lots to traces of the artist's hand. To steal again from Derrida, one can think of the accumulated blackness as a crossing out, a presentation of the images as "under erasure." It reminds me that the French, sous rature, derives from the verb rater—to miss. I could count the artist herself among the missing persons.
I felt the presences in a different way in those prints last winter, which have a vertical format and roughly the dimensions of a bedroom mirror. I felt them in different ways, too, in McPhee's previous videos and in tart but creamy abstract paintings from not long before. One can see all those elements in her work now, and it is worth lingering over the personal and artistic history that they bring.
Even in her abstract paintings, I made out a head thrown back, barely showing through the sleek, blackened surface. In the recollections at once of Abstract Expressionism, self-revelation, and feminist irony, had she more in common with a painter like Cecily Brown than she herself may think? In fact, my imagination had run away with itself. Back then, too, she had based her art on landscape. But was I altogether wrong?
While working on those abstract landscapes, McPhee lived in the Southwest, where one can no doubt afford some nostalgia, and I took delight in her quiet flirtations with image and abstraction. She displayed them with fragmented photographs in a horizontal format that suggests a landscape's horizon line. Still other works used pencil for line or thick handmade gray paper as support. The quiet layering still reminds me both of Brown's games with surface and of many a formalist's with a painting's support.
At the time, I had to speak of small pleasures, and I suspected that I would recall the mix of styles and media as transitional. I wondered then if McPhee would have to face up to her art's tangled relationship among abstraction, the represented scene, and the imagination. In the meantime, though, I kept the blue-green image of an exhibition postcard near my desk while I wrote.
I was not far wrong. In some of McPhee's first experiments with interactive software, she created sound and images that one can stretch or compress with a mouseover. In another gallery show, her tape played out moments of a dream. On a Southwestern highway, she lay face up with her head and upper torso on camera, like Sherman without the disguise—or the disgust. As the camera circled around her head, a cryptic narration unfolded, speaking of loss in relationships and in art. It still haunts me, only I do not get to play. In the lovely tale of loneliness, I do not even get to feel shame for the male gaze.
I have written separately about later, still more ambitious digital narratives. Here her own intervention into California's seismic landscape becomes at once a science project, a detective story, a map of the world, and an elusive self-portrait. They, too, track a natural disaster as a tale of cultural decisions and human lives. She had also begun to incorporate real-time geologic data along with her self-portrait, and she raised questions about the stability of either, not to mention the claims of both to truth in representation.
She has continued to work in all these media, and these strains all come together in her mammoth prints. From small pleasures, she has gone to covering the gallery as itself a landscape. Vertical prints adopt the format of her most recent panel paintings, like doors leading from the gallery to riskier territory. Part of me still prefers the starkness of the vertical frames to the dark horizontals of "La Conchita Mon Amour." I also miss the traces of disguised narrative in those past videos, which raised questions about the authority of data-driven modes of representation. However, McPhee now pulls together a greater density of phenomena than ever before.
Did I want to turn away from references to Hiroshima after 9/11, when people seem determined to exploit omens of disaster everywhere? When I first saw McPhee's simultaneous interests in drawing and photography, did I wonder if her work was in transition or slipping away from me? Now she describes actual slippage, in those mudslides. Now, too, transition and slippage have become the conditions for her art.
Catherine Opie's photographs ran at Barbara Gladstone through October 14, 2006, Nathan Lyons at Silverstein Photography, through October 7, "Persona-Personae" at Sara Tecchia through February 25, and Christina McPhee's latest solo show through November 22. Portions of this review will have appeared in Artillery magazine (December 2006). You may see it as an extended postscript to a two-part article on McPhee's digital landscape. I refer to McPhee's earlier show through February 26, 2000, at Cælum and to works that challenge me online. She continues abstract painting and multimedia, which have been featured in the March 2005 Whitney Artport.


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My sweet Emma,
I placed the purple flower in your hair and you smiled.
Carefree you danced as the royal color of your shift swirled in its dappled patterns.
Heaven could not have made a more perfect vision,
every movement a whirlwind of charm
lost in a world with too little beauty
like that of the innocent flower in your hair,
enchanting in its simplicity.
B asking in the sunshine
U pon a lovely flower
T reating on its nectar
T hen moving to another
E njoying nectar anew
R ising with the breeze
F loating in the air
L ovely to view in the
Y ellow glowing sunshine
(Acrostic Poem)
(From my flower collection poetry)-
R- esting so beautiful among the flower beds,
0- bject of man's devotions,
S- ending your message of beauty to all,
E- ndearing, among them you're the best
I- n a colorful display your bearded face,
R- anting to the Sun, all day and night,
I- ntroverted you bow to the ground but
S- till in your grace you kiss the Sun!
M- iracle dressed up in yellow,oranges
A- dding to your presence more warmth,
R- adiating such a beauty under the sun,
I- nviting within your petals lights,
G- oing around in circles,endless
O- bvious to my eyes,you're having fun,
L- ayers of softness,so ilusive you are
D- ancing away under the magic of the Sun!
Dorian Petersen Potter
Gardening is planting the seed in hope that it will grow and blossom
All things will blossom with time and sunshine
Roads can get bumpy when it rains but you can weather the storm
Don't let to much water fall from you can it can ruin the roots
Even if you don't mean to you still can neglect you plant
Never give up on your plant even when it looks like it's dying
I will give it plenty of time and attention and I will talk to it too
Need to give it plenty of space when transplanted so as not to anger
Grow with all my heart till it will burst open
The Sweetest Touch Contest
Tricia Bernard
W hen summer ends and a cool wind blows
I n the garden there is just one rose
L eft all alone in the cool of the day
T he last rose of summer slowly fades away
F reely sharing your beauty in
L ovely shapes and colours as you
O pen up your precious buds
W hen each one is ready to
E xhibit Nature's beauty in a
R ange of shapes and sizes in a
S plendid display of her artistry
Over the
Next hill
Quietly resting
Underneath the
Icy ground
Lay the jonquils.
Unscathed by
Long winter days
Bearing the promise of
Love is pure beauty...at least, that's what I thought at first...don't spend your time unwisely, searching for temporary love that's sugar-coated and fake...love is an unbreakable vow
Oh! But, I wanna experience love at first sight (OH STOHP WHINING) - I need to have a faithful mate very badly, but I must remain self-controlled and patient, for the time will come!
Vibrant sun smiles down on me...sun rays warm my heart of affection and heartfelt emotions - hatred is an unwanted guest! An annoying pest! It envies our everlasting love, blossoming like a flower in spring
Enlivened by your innocence and pleasurable friendship - does she truly love me or is is just my impossible-to-achieve dream I dream...caught under your wicked spell! You're an enchanting oath that I don't..loathe
R- esting so beautiful among the flower beds
0- bject of man's devotions
S- ending your message of beauty to all
E- ndearing, among them you're the best
I- n a colorful display your bearded face
R- anting to the Sun, all day and night
I- ntroverted you bow to the ground but
S- till in your grace you kiss the Sun
M- iracle dressed up in yellow,oranges
A- dding to your presence more warmth
R- adiating such a beauty under the Sun
I- nviting within your petals light
G- oing around in circles,endless
O- bvious to my eyes,you're having fun
L- ayers of softness,so ilusive you are
D- ancing away under the magic of the Sun.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Authors notes:
From my flower poetry collection -
Another day arrives so I embrace all I see
Rose becomes a constant inspiration to me
On any given day she opens my eyes
She becomes empowerment that is larger than I.
Every moment feels like it could be the chance
Inside the words lives the opportunity to advance
So sweet are the words that they alter my soul
Arms appear for me to climb from this hole.
Realizing the beauty of the flower that bears this name
Opening my mind in turn changing the game
Something calls to me telling me it shall be okay
Everything I lost becomes lost in yesterday.
By any other name it's still a beautiful flower
Yearning to grow yet requiring a shower
Anything can happen when a flower grows
Yesterday disappears as my purpose starts to show.
No one can take this away no matter what they try
Angels from heaven let loose a heavenly sigh
My love becomes the focus and nothing is the same
Every Rose is a rose by any name……
I must compare you.......to a beautiful Tulip
Another sweet fragile flower..bestowed, also
Nurtured......and will give of your love to me
As this long... hot day.....gives over to night
Gentle my loving probing touch,....will linger
Under moonlights glow...embracing we sway
You sense my passion,my lust...all my needs
Lovingly..you succumb, passions path we go
Ever so gentle i melt into...you......all of you
Rolling your petals........like an unfurled tulip
Going at the Pace of a little elF,
Eventually, It Ignites the floraL,
Nectar flow, Crowned with a fragrant halO.
Tantalizing, Kisses of honey dew lay on it's succulent pilloW.
Lapping the Evidence from my fingers and facE,
Yesterday's Delicious, gently picked flowerR.

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Only one day after The Province spun a globe and landed on the state of Florida as a potential trade partner, Mike Gillis has partially taken their advice, sending Mikael Samuelsson and Marco Sturm to the Florida Panthers in exchange for winger David Booth, centre Steven Reinprecht, and the third round pick the Canucks originally gave to Florida to get Chris Higgins.
You heard that right. The Canucks have moved their two least impressive forwards so far this season for the elusive power forward for Ryan Kesler's wing. That's like trading a bottle of glue for a unicorn.
This one came out of nowhere. Not since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has a Booth arrived so unexpectedly.
David Booth, 26, is the prized piece here. At 6'0″, he's not overly tall, but he's a solid 212 lbs (almost identical measurements to the very thick Raffi Torres). Booth plays a power forward's game, too; he's strong on his skates and he likes to hit. He also likes to score. In 309 career games with Florida, he recorded 167 points. His best season came in 2008-09, when he scored 31 goals and 29 assists.
There are some concerns, of course. Booth was a team-worst minus-31 last season for the Panthers. Granted, pretty much everyone on the Panthers finished in the minuses — being sucky will do that to you — but when you're the worst of the worst, something's the matter. Expect Booth to struggle in the early going as he adjusts to the Canucks' defensively-focused system. Playing with the reigning Selke winner in Ryan Kesler will certainly help, but we've seen, with the recent additions of Keith Ballard and Victor Oreskovich, that it often takes ex-Panthers a little while to unlearn poor habits.
Still, defense can be taught. Booth's high-end offensive skill, on the other hand, cannot be. He's a solid addition, finally putting an end to Ryan Kesler's helicopter line.
At least one hopes, especially with that contract. Like Keith Ballard, Booth arrives from The Sunshine State with a pretty hefty price tag: the Canucks will be paying him $4.25 million a season through 2014-15. Provided he works out, no one will mind, but if past experience is any indication, Canuck fans don't have much patience for overpaid acquisitions from Florida.
As for Steven Reinprecht, the Canucks have already said that he's on his way to the Chicago Wolves, and his $2 million price tag is too much for the team to risk eating half of on recall waivers, but don't think he was just a throw-in. Yes, the Panthers were trying to dump the salary (that's pretty much all this trade was in its entirety for them), but the Canucks will be more than glad to have a veteran centre just waiting in the minors in case one of Maxim Lapierre or Manny Malhotra goes down just before the playoffs, like last season.
The third-round pick matters as well. By getting it back, the Canucks are now in a position to tender offer sheets, if they so choose. Mike Gillis has proven in the past that he doesn't care much for the unspoken agreement between GMs not to do that.
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As for Mikael Samuelsson, parting is such sweet sorrow. He's been problematic at even-strength, much-maligned as a powerplay quarterback (unfairly, if you ask me) and he's slowly lost footspeed over his last two seasons, but his dadness, his awkward goal celebrations, and his brutal honesty will be sorely missed. Although we can still look forward to Samuelsson telling the Florida media that the Canucks can go [forget] themselves.
Samuelsson leaves a few interesting holes in the lineup. If this afternoon's game is any indication, his spot on the Canucks' top powerplay unit will be ably filled by Sami Salo, a solution that will likely add some shootiness to a group often prone to over-passing. He also leaves the door open for someone else — say, Dale Weise — to be Alex Burrows' post-penalty kill replacement on the top line with the Sedins.
There are other small shockwaves that this trade sends through the lineup. Clearly, Ryan Kesler's other linemate is going to be reconsidered as well. Cody Hodgson was benched in the third period of tonight's game; does he get another chance there? If not, does Chris Higgins, forming an All-American trio? Will Mark Spector cut the Canucks some slack if they have a line like that? No Danes and Swedes here, pal.
If Higgins presses Hodgson out, does this mean the return of Cody's dark times? I don't think so. It looks like it will take him a little more time to learn the wing than everyone thought, though, and I'm sure the Canucks would rather those growing pains happen on the third line than the second. Expect him to line up with Manny Malhotra and Jannik Hansen going forward.
And finally, a word on the fact that this is yet another trade with Florida. It's weird. See @JeffCoolHo's helpful infographic for just how absurd their relationship is becoming:
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Wow, the owner has deep pockets to be able to afford $2M for a minor-leaguer in Reinprecht.
Oh, that's right…Canucks' fans have deep pockets, too.
I like the trade because what left the team were two pretty mediocre (at best) players.
I wonder how Gillis would do as a GM in Nashville? Interesting thought.
I've often wondered the opposite: what would David Poile do with a budget?
Gillis has shown an ability to sign players to contracts for good value (Burrows and the Sedins come to mind), but a lot of what he's done has been in improvements to support staff, hiring of Laurence Gilman, sprucing up the locker room and other areas, and other improvements that don't have a cap hit. It would definitely be interesting to see what he would do without the budget for those kinds of improvements as well as the restrictions in having a smaller budget for players.
Excuse me but how much of a homer can you be? Everything on a platter and still no cup.
Unlimited budget, awesome core (except for Luongo), and a packed house full of homers like yourself.
I echo your sentiment about Poile but with expectations of the ultimate prize.
With your resume Mr. Wegner, you should be occupying Vancouver instead snuggling up to flakey authority figures like Gillis who on the one hand berates the press and on the other is in such a hockey market that he can put $2M in the minors in this market as per Trevor Linden's comments.
Hope you and Mr. Mooney get a nice gig out of this 'objectivity'.
Wow. I honestly have no idea what I said that deserved such a rude reply. In case you didn't notice, I was agreeing with you. It would be interesting to see Gillis in Nashville with a limited budget. The only thing I said in support of Gillis was that he's "shown an ability to sign players to contracts for good value" then I pointed out how a number of his improvements to the Canucks have been things he's been able to do because of his larger budget. Again, I was agreeing with you. How in the world does that turn into me being a biased homer?
Seriously, I have no clue how that was me "snuggling up to flakey authority figures."
Is this how you respond to everyone who agrees with you? Harrison said it tongue in cheek, but I'm honestly concerned that you have a problem.


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When the Detroit Pistons made the roughly hour-and-a-half trip down I-75 for the Oct. 19 98-92 preseason victory against the Washington Wizards in front of a crowd of 6,424 at the Huntington Center, it marked the first time in 21 years nearly to the day since the last time the team from the Motor City made a pit stop in Toledo.
The Pistons last came to T-Town on Oct. 23, 1989, for its preseason game against the New York Knicks at Savage Hall, where the players were victorious 105-92 in front of a crowd of 8,379 for a contest that benefited the local arthritis foundation. Detroit was fresh off its' first championship in franchise history on that trip back in '89, and then-guard Joe Dumars was fresh off his NBA Finals MVP performance and scored 17 points.
This time around, the Pistons came into Toledo after missing the playoffs for the first time in eight years, a team trying to return to the form it had last decade when it went to six consecutive Eastern Conference Finals and won the 2004 NBA Championship. And Dumars, who retired in 1999 after 14 seasons with Detroit and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, saw this week's game a few rows back from the bench as the team's President of Basketball Operations, a position he's had since 2000.
"Playing preseason games in neutral arenas is always a good experience because you are playing in front of a new group of fans that don't have the opportunity to see an NBA game on a regular basis," Dumars said via e-mail. "I remember it [Savage Hall] being a good experience and we got a nice reception from the fans.
"The experience of playing in smaller markets is fun because you normally have good, energetic crowds in sold-out arenas. With the arena size smaller, the larger crowds make for a good atmosphere."
Despite not having played a game in Toledo in more than two decades, the Pistons have made a few trips to Northwest Ohio the past couple of years for various team and charitable functions. In 2008, a customized tour bus filled with several Detroit team and media members visited Toledo as part of the team's 2008 Tipoff Tour. Last month, the Pistons' Year Round Hoops Squad, Vice President of Basketball Operations Scott Perry and first round draft pick Greg Monroe visited Birmingham Elementary for a "Homework Before Hoops" assembly to reward the school's students for academic progress.
"We always try to stay connected to the Toledo market because we think it is a viable fan base for us," Dumars said. "The drive is not long, and if we can create some new Pistons fans in that region, it's good for our team and our organization."
Fourth-year Detroit guard Rodney Stuckey, who had a game-high 34 points Oct. 19 and was part of that 2008 Tipoff Tour that came to Toledo, enjoyed the experience of playing in a smaller market.
"We have a big fan base, so it's good to just get out and just show our fans our appreciation for them," Stuckey said. "I know it's hard for people to drive over to Auburn Hills and watch a lot of games, so it's good for us to just come over here and play a preseason game."
Fellow Pistons guard Rip Hamilton, who is in his ninth season with Detroit and one of three players remaining from the 2004 championship team, also had fun playing at the Huntington Center.
"It was fun," Hamilton said. "It was exciting. The fans don't always get an opportunity to come see us in Detroit, so it's a great opportunity for them to come out, and we had a good time with it."
Stuckey, Hamilton and their Detroit teammates did a good job of keeping 2010 No. 1 overall pick John Wall in check on Oct. 19, forcing the speedy Wizards guard into six turnovers while the rookie notched 13 points and seven assists.
"He got a couple, but as for the whole game, I think we defended him pretty well," Stuckey said. "He's going to be a good player."
As for whether the Pistons are planning on playing future preseason games in the Huntington Center as they have done at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich., nothing is set in stone. However, Dumars said it is something the organization will evaluate.
"It is something that we'll continue to look at and take into consideration," Dumars said.
After the turnout at the Huntington Center, it's safe to say that Joe D. and company will be back in Toledo before another 21 years pass.
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No. 2 Chattanooga (18-13/12-4) | 2014 SoCon Championship
Game 32 | Saturday, March 8, 2014 | 6 p.m. | US Cellular Arena | Asheville, N.C.
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SoCon Overtime takes place Friday, March 7, after the first round games are completed. The Grove Arcade, a block from the arena, is the location for the event which features Asheville restaurants, breweries and other vendors from 6-9 p.m.
With a win, the Mocs play in the semifinals Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. against No. 3 Wofford, No. 6 UNCG or No. 11 The Citadel. That game is televised on CSS as well as ESPN3.com. The championship game is Monday night at 9 p.m., on ESPN2.
- Chattanooga is the No. 2 seed in the 94th Southern Conference Basketball Championship. It has a first round bye facing the winner of No. 7 Georgia Southern and No. 10 Furman on Saturday at 6 p.m.
- All SoCon Tourney games are televised. The quarters will be on ESPN3.com, the semis on there and CSS, while the championship game is on ESPN2.
- The Mocs are 6-2 against their side of the bracket: 2-0 vs. No. 3 Wofford, 1-1 vs. No. 6 UNCG, 0-1 vs. No. 7 Georgia Southern, 2-0 vs. No. 10 Furman and 1-0 vs. No. 11 The Citadel. They're 6-2 against the other side as well.
- Chattanooga's 12-4 (.750) SoCon mark is the best winning percentage since 11-3 (.786) in 1996-97. First time with 12 wins since going 12-6 in 2010-11. It's the 11th season with 12 or more regular-season wins.
- The Mocs are 52-26 (.667) in the SoCon Tournament with 10 titles, the best record among current membership. That includes an 8-1 mark at home, 0-3 away and 44-22 on a neutral floor. In Asheville, Chattanooga is 21-10 with four championships. More tourney history can be found on pages 7-9.
- Chattanooga has played in the SoCon title game 17 times in 37 tournaments. Davidson is second over that time-frame with 12.
- The Mocs are 30-20 all-time against Georgia Southern, 5-1 in the SoCon Tournament. It's 50-25 in its 75 meetings with Furman, 4-3 in the tournament. More series notes are on pages 10 and 11.
- Chattanooga leads the SoCon in rebounding (37.4), rebound margin (+1.9) and blocks (5.1).
- Z. Mason is the Defensive Player of the Year. This award is voted on by the coaches only. He is the first Moc to garner the award.
- Mason and Casey Jones made the coaches All-SoCon team.
- Mason is first team All-SoCon and Jones third team according to the media vote. The last time Chattanooga had a first team All-SoCon media performer was 2009 (Stephen McDowell).
- The media named Will Wade the Anton Foy Coach of the Year. First such award for a Moc coach since Mack McCarthy in 1993. It is just the sixth such award on the Chattanooga bench: Murray Arnold (1982, 1983) and McCarthy (1986, 1992, 1993).
- The Mocs are second in the SoCon in scoring (76.4).
- The team is 52nd nationally in scoring.
- Mason is fourth in the league at 18.2 points per game. He is averaged a double-double (18.0 points & 10.2 rebounds) in SoCon contests.
- Casey Jones (18th, 12.2 ppg) and McGhee (27th, 10.4) are also listed among the SoCon leaders.
- In SoCon games only, Mason (6th), Jones (13th, 14.3 ppg) and Ronrico White (16th, 13.2 ppg) rank in the top 20.
- 21 20-point efforts this season: Mason (12 times), Jones (5 times), White (twice), Gee McGhee and Martynas Bareika have scored 20 or more points in a game this season. Mason has two with 30 or more.
- Best team average since 2003-04 (82.1).
- The Mocs lead the SoCon in rebounding and rebound margin.
- The squad is +36 on the boards over the last five games, a +7.2 margin.
- The team ranks 13th nationally in offensive rebounds per game (13.2).
- Mason leads the SoCon in rebounding (9.5) and defensive rebounds (6.7). He ranks in the top 25 nationally in rebounding (23rd) and defensive rebounds (17th).
- 22 games with 10 or more rebounds by an individual: Mason (15), Jones (4), Gee McGhee (2) & T.J. Williams (1).
- McGhee is heating up at the right time. He's reached double-digits in five of his last six including a season-high 21 at Samford. Over that stretch, McGhee is posting 13.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game shooting 49.1 percent (28-57) from the floor including 35.7 percent (5-14) from 3pt range.
- Chattanooga leads the SoCon in blocked shots (5.1). That number increased to 6.0 per game in conference play.
- 158 blocks is the second-most in school history for a season behind 175 in 2001-02.
- The team has five or more blocks in 18 games.
- The Mocs are 37th in the country in blocked shots.
- Mason is the obvious focus as the league leader in swats at 3.0 per contest. In 16 SoCon settings, he tallied 3.6 per game.
- Mason ranks 17th in the nation in blocks per contest.
- Mason's 87 blocks are second-most on the all-time season list, two behind Neil Ashby (89, 2001-02).
- Mason's 124 career blocks is also second all-time behind Stanley Lawrence (1980-83) in first with 132.
- Mason set school season record for blocks in conference season with 57.
- Mason has 1,144 points, 659 boards and 124 blocks in his two-plus years as a Moc.
- ONLY Moc in school history to exceed 1,000 points, 500 boards and 100 blocks.
- Just the third DI era performer with 1,000 points and 600 rebounds (Nicchaeus Doaks, 2006-09 and Lance Fulse, 1985-88).
- Currently 9th in scoring, nine points behind Hall of Famer Stanford Strickland (1981-84), with 1,153. Just 13 points separates Mason from seventh-place David Phillips (1997-00).
- Currently third in rebounding, 88 short of Lance Fulse (1985-88) in third with 653.
- For career and season record watches along with career active leaders, turn to page nine.
- Mason has 14 double-doubles this season setting the DI era season record.
- He is tied for 11th in the nation in double-doubles. Jerrelle Benimon (Towson) leads with 20.
- Mason has seven 20/10 games which is one behind of Keith Nelson's mark of eight in 1990-91.
- Mason has two 30/10 games, one short of Johnny Taylor's (2006-07) school record of three in 2005-06.
- Mason has 21 career double-doubles which ranks tied for second with Lance Fulse behind Nelson (23).
- Head Coach Will Wade is 18-13 in his first season as a head coach. He is Chattanooga's 18th head coach, seventh of the DI era.
- Wade is 12-2 at home, 5-10 away and 1-1 in neutral site contests.
- He is 0-1 vs. Georgia Southern, 2-0 vs. Furman, 12-4 vs. SoCon teams.
- He is 0-0 in the SoCon Tourney.
- Wade is a 2005 graduate of Clemson. He has worked with current collegiate head coaches Larry Shyatt (Wyoming), Oliver Purnell (DePaul), Tommy Amaker (Harvard) and Shaka Smart (VCU) at Clemson, Harvard and VCU, respectively.
- Wade's staff includes a former head coach, Wes Long (Queens, 2009-13), former Mocs standout Casey Long (2004-07) and Buffalo star Turner Battle. Casey Long was retained from the previous regime. He also welcomed back Mocs great Johnny Taylor (1996-97). Taylor, a Chattanooga native, led Chattanooga to the 1997 NCAA Sweet 16 before becoming the school's first NBA first round draft selection (Orlando). Taylor completed a 15-year pro career and returned to the Scenic City to complete his degree in criminal justice.GoMocs.com is the official website of the Chattanooga Mocs. The Mocs can also be followed on their official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/GoMocs) or on Twitter (@GoMocsMBB & @GoMocs). Find out how to join the UTC Mocs Club and support more than 300 student-athletes by clicking here.


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Through the years we've come to know Bisciotti a bit better and as a result each visit is more comfortable, informative and entertaining than the previous one. His growth as an owner and as a student of the game is more noticeable with every trip to the coastal town by way of his personal helicopter.
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Police in two jurisdictions continue to seek the identity of a man dubbed the "serial groper" who they suspect has perpetrated as many as 18 different assaults against local women over the last five months.
The two most recent assaults that police believe were committed by the groper both occurred last week in Springfield within 25 minutes of each other.
On Jan. 29, police said a 30-year-old woman was walking south on Dinwiddie Street near Dana Avenue at 3:10 p.m. She reported that someone approached from behind her, grabbed and groped her, then fled. The suspect was described as Hispanic, around 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a neatly trimmed beard. The second incident took place a few blocks away, on Backlick Road near the intersection of Cabin John Road at 3:35 p.m. In that incident, police said a 25-year-old woman was walking south on Backlick Road, underneath the 495 underpass, when she felt someone groping her. She yelled and the suspect fled. The suspect on that case was also described as Hispanic, around 5 feet 6 inches tall with a black jacket and blue jeans. A similar description has been given in all 18 assaults that have occurred since September — 17 in the county, and one in Falls Church.
"Detectives are proceeding with the investigation as if these two most recent assaults are the work of the Springfield groper," said police spokesman Don Gotthardt.
Police say the serial groper assaults began Sept. 7, when a 26-year-old woman reported that she was walking in the area of Old Keene Mill Road and Springfield Boulevard when she heard a whistle. When she reached the 7200 block of Monticello Boulevard, a man grabbed her from behind and fondled her. The man then fled. Police said the woman described that suspect as Hispanic, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and wearing a red baseball cap.
That same description--including the red baseball cap--was given eleven days later by a 16-year-old girl who said she was walking on a path in the 6700 block of Metropolitan Center Drive in Springfield when she was grabbed; and then again by a 17-year-old girl Sept. 27 in the 5900 block of Erving Street; and again by a 15-year-old girl Oct. 2 in the 6200 block of Hibbling Avenue in Springfield.
In the Falls Church incident, which occurred October 19, the same description was given by yet another woman.
Falls Church police said the man approached the woman from behind and forcefully grabbed her buttock area. "He did not let go until she screamed. The suspect appears to be brazen, as this attack occurred in broad daylight," said Falls Church spokeswoman Susan Finarelli.
"We are looking into the connection between the Springfield-area assaults and the one in Falls Church," said Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell. "Besides the red baseball cap, there are other similarities in all the cases, including the fact that many took place during daylight hours."
As the number of victims steadily rises, police are concerned that the groper may become more brazen and begin to escalate his crimes.
"He comes up from behind the women, gropes them, then quickly flees," said Gotthardt. "That is one of the reasons that there is not a better description of his features. So far he has not attempted anything else as far as we know, but from a criminology standpoint and a historical standpoint, statistically it has been proven that things like this have a tendency over time to escalate. Not necessarily in frequency but in terms of intensity and violence. That is why detectives are taking all these incidents seriously. "


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Geddes Munson '07
Major: History
What is your current job?
Lead Solutions Architect at Mixpanel - an analytics product for web and mobile apps.
Why did you choose this profession?
I always had a knack for programming, but never felt happy in purely technical jobs. However, when I tried out roles that didn't have a technical component, I missed the technical part and always felt I had a technical "itch" I had to scratch.
I was fortunate to find analytics -- a role which required me to marry the technical skills of a software developer with an understanding of the business I was working for and the ability to communicate my findings clearly and effectively.
Tell us about a decision or change you made that turned out to be a positive career move.
Moving west to join Mixpanel - then a 6-person startup that hadn't raised an A round. I'll always be grateful to my wife for taking the risk with me. We packed our life into a Penske truck and drove from New York to San Francisco to chase the Silicon Valley dream.
Since then, Mixpanel has grown to 1,200 paying customers (and counting), become profitable, and received further financial backing from the top VCs in the industry. It's been incredibly rewarding to help this company grow.
How has Haverford influenced your professional career?
The first thing I have to mention is FIG, the unix club that I was lucky enough to be a part of in 2002. Somehow all the technically minded Fords found each other and decided to start a club. The original idea was just to get Students' Council to fund some servers for us. However, we quickly decided that we could build something useful for the campus. So we built go.haverford.edu together. When within a week we saw that 90% of the students on campus were visiting the site at least once a day, I was sold that a small, dedicated team of really smart people can do BIG things QUICKLY with software. I was hooked. I'm very indebted to my association with the founding team at FIG.
My first few jobs out of college came from relationships with fellow classmates and Haverford alumni, so there is no doubt that Haverford provided a big boost there. Even out here in Silicon Valley, though Haverford alums are rare, we seek each other out and there is instant trust.
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chopped daikon
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1 tablespoon
rice vinegar
1/4 teaspoon
ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon
sesame oil
I used half rice vinegar and half apple cider vinegar. These were much better after 2 days in the fridge. Great to snack on but also really good in a regular green salad. Oh, and I don't know about anyone else, but I always peel daikons. Thanks!
nice 'n easy, but a bit bland, helped by using a bit of soy sauce
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Very mildly pickled, but good taste and texture. Aside from chopping the daikon, there's very little work involved. I ate this with cucumber and avocado on flavored seaweed - a fabulous texture and taste combination!
I made with cider vinegar because I didn't have any rice vinegar handy. They came out a bit more bitter than I would have expected, but I still loved them! I will make these again! They were great and easy for a bagged lunch! Thanks!
These were very good and very easy! I imagine you could use other crisp veggies (including cucumber) if daikon radishes are not available.
Daikon Radishes are LARGE. I wasn't sure what to do with my left overs so this recipe was GREAT! I will buy my next Daikon with this recipe in mind!
Maybe my plastic containers don't form perfect seals, but my house smelled of pickling juices for several days while these sat in the fridge. Consider yourself warned. The daikon pickles are decent, though certainly not the same style as you'd get at one of the few Chinese restaurants that have them. As for how I made them, I peeled the daikon (the recipe skipped this step) then chopped it. Because the recipe didn't say, I chopped it into 3/4 inch cubes. It took about half a large daikon to make 1 1/2 cups of chopped daikon. And, indeed, in step one they did release two tablespoons of water. In step two, I skipped the optional sesame oil.
I love daikon and this made great pickles. Very yummy.
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Angola is not exactly the safest destination in the world, despite the official end of the 25-year-long civil war in 2002. War certainly ravages a land and its people, as visitors to Angola will find. This is a destination for aid workers, not tourists.
That said, Angola has embarked on the road of recovery. When it finally becomes a safe option for travellers, the nation's cultural heritage will prove its greatest lure. Dance, music and art all emanate from a rich past and have helped shape the sights and sounds of the rest of the world.
Khoisan hunter-gatherers are some of the earliest known modern human inhabitants of the area. They were largely replaced by Bantu tribes during the Bantu migrations, though small numbers of Khoisans remain in parts of southern Angola to the present day. The geographical areas now designated as Angola, first became subject to incursions by the Portuguese in the late 15th century. Angola became a link in European trade with India and Southeast Asia. The Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as "São Paulo de Loanda", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.
In 1951, the colony was designated as an overseas province, called Overseas Province of Angola. Portugal had a presence in Angola for nearly five hundred years, and the population's initial reaction to calls for independence was mixed. More overtly political organisations first appeared in the 1950s, and began to make organised demands for their rights. During the Colonial War, the principal protagonists were the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), founded in 1956, the FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), which appeared in 1961, and UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), founded in 1966. After many years of conflict, Angola gained its independence on 11 November 1975. After independence, Angola faced a devastating civil war which lasted several decades and claimed millions of lives and refugees.
On February 22, 2002, Jonas Savimbi, the leader of UNITA, was killed in combat with government troops, and a cease-fire was reached by the two factions. UNITA gave up its armed wing and assumed the role of major opposition party. Although the political situation of the country began to stabilize, President Dos Santos has so far refused to institute regular democratic processes. Among Angola's major problems are a serious humanitarian crisis (a result of the prolonged war), the abundance of minefields, and the actions of guerrilla movements fighting for the independence of the northern exclave of Cabinda (Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda). While most of the internally displaced have now returned home, the general situation for most Angolans remains desperate, and the development facing the government challenging as a consequence.
At 1,246,620 km2), Angola is the world's twenty-third largest country (after Niger). It is comparable in size to Mali and is nearly twice the size of the U.S. state of Texas, or five times the area of the United Kingdom. It lies mostly between latitudes 4° and 18°S, and longitudes 12° and 24°E. Angola is bordered by Namibia to the south, Zambia to the east, the Democratic Republic of Congo to the northeast, and the South Atlantic Ocean to the west. The exclave of Cabinda also borders the Republic of Congo to the north. Angola's capital, Luanda, lies on the Atlantic coast in the northwest of the country. Angola has four principal natural regions: the arid coastal lowland, stretching from Namibia to Luanda and characterized by low plains and terraces; green hills and mountains, rising inland from the coast into a great escarpment; a large area of high inland plains of dry savanna, called the high plateau (planalto), which extends eastward and south-east from the escarpment; and rain forest in the north and in Cabinda. The highest point in Angola is Morro de Môco, at 2,620 metres. Elevations generally range from 910 to 1,800 metres). The Zambezi River and several tributaries of the Congo River have their sources in Angola. A large number of rivers originate in the central uplands, but their patterns of flow are diverse and their ultimate outlets varied. A number flow in a more or less westerly course to the Atlantic Ocean, providing water for irrigation in the dry coastal strip.
Angola is administratively divided into 18 provinces (províncias); Bengo, Benguela, Bié, Cabinda, Cuando Cubango, Cuanza Norte, Cuanza Sul, Cunene, Huambo, Huila, Luanda, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul, Malanje, Moxico, Namibe, Uíge, Zaire
Geographically the country can be divided into 3 areas.
Angola boasts over 1650 kilometres of coastline, and travellers can find great beaches around Luanda, Benguela and Namibe. Thanks to a year-round warm climate, anytime is a great time to duck to the beach. The water on the other hand can be somewhat colder in the south, due to the cold Benguela current.
Kissama is one of Angola's best national parks, boasting a lively population of elephants, rhinos, water buffaloes and antelopes. Nesting sea turtles inhabit the park's coastal areas. Kissama is located about 70 kilometres south of Luanda, making it easily accessible. It actually functions as the only national park with some facilities for travellers, while others are still in repair.
Iona National park is located in the southern Namibe Province of Angola, about 200 kilometres from the city of Namibe and the largest national park in the country. The park is known for unique flora and incredible rock formations and used to be a paradise for wildlife as well. Unfortunately, like many other parks in the country, many of the wildlife has been poached or otherwise destroyed during the Angolan Civil War.
Although Angola is located entirely within the tropics, the climate is somewhat more pleasant and both altitude (inland) as well as sea currents (coastal areas) are influencing this more temperate situation. In general, there are of course hot and humid conditions in Angola, especially in the eastern parts of the country where the land meets the Congo and Zambezi Rivers. This means temperatures of 30 °C or more and mostly around 20 °C at night. More inland however, temperatures are somewhat lower, generally between 24 °C and 29 °C, and dropping to around 12 °C to 14 °C at night, a bit colder during the June to August wintertime. The latter months are also the driest. Most rain falls between October and April.
Although roughly the same applies to the coastal region, the southern part of the coast is much drier and has very arid conditions with only about 50 to 100 mm of rain a year. Temperatures during the day are the same, but at night are somewhat higher compared to the inland plateau.
Towards the northern coastal zone, temperatures and rainfall increases, with around 600 mm a year, about half of what falls inland.
TAAG Angola Airlines (Portuguese only) is the national airline of Angola and is based at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport (LAD) near the capital Luanda. International destinations from here include Accra, Addis Ababa, Bangui, Beijing, Brazzaville, Cabinda, Harare, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lisbon, Lubango, Lusaka, N'djamena, Namibe, Ondjiva (Namibia), Paris, Pointe Noire, Rio de Janeiro, Sal, São Tomé, Salvador da Bahia and Windhoek.
Several other airlines fly to and from here as well, including British Airways from London, Brussels Airlines from Brussels, Air France from Paris, TAP Portugal from Lisbon and probably KLM from Amsterdam at the end of 2008. Moscow, China and Johannesburg all have good connections as well.
The borders of Angola with most neighbouring countries are open now, but it is still quite an adventurous trip to travel along the roads to and from for example Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Border crossing with Namibia on the other hand is quite straightforward, but be sure to have your visa in advance. Crossings are between Rundu (Namibia) and Calai (Angola) or Oshikango (Namibia) and Santa Clara (Angola0.
Cabinda, Catumbela, Dundo, Huambo, Luena, Luanda (Quatro de Fevereiro Airport), Lubango, Malanje, Menongue, Namibe, Ondjiva and Soyo are domestic destinations served by TAAG Angola Airlines.
There are also many other airlines like Air Gemini, Sonair SAL Airlines and Diexim Expresso which offer flights. Helicopter access to Cabinda is also possible.
Rail services are poor and tickets hard to purchase sometimes. Still, for enthusiasts there are trains running on three separate routes from Luanda. There is a line to Malanje (daily) with short branches to Dondo and Golungo Alto. Other lines include Lobito to Dilolo (the Benguela Railway, daily) and Namibe to Menongue (daily). There are no sleeping cars and no aircon, though food and drink is available on some lines.
Much of the tarred roads that existed are destroyed, but gradually being rebuilt. You will need a 4wd car though to get around most places and you can rent one in Luanda and the international airport. Note that it is advised to stick to the main roads (mines are still problem) and don't drive at night as car jackings can be a risk in some places.
A national driver's licence usually is enough, for longer stays an international permit is needed. Traffic drives on the right.
The only useful long distance bus route is the 700km trip from Luanda to Benguela, taking around 9 hours. Three companies offer services between the two cities. Some erratic buses and minibuses, or shared taxis, ply some other usually shorter routes.
Few regular passenger services exist, as there is almost no significant way of getting around by boat. Some options might include some boats just offshore near Luanda or on rivers bordering Namibia, but even those are of no use really.
Almost all national need a visa prior to arriving in Angola. Check the nearest Angolan Embassy for more information. It usually takes 3 or 4 days of processing.
Your passport needs to be valid for at least 6 months and contain two blank pages. Visas are valid for a maximum of 30 days.
See also Money matters
Kwanza (AOA) = 100 centimos.
Notes in denominations of AOA100, 50, 10 and 5.
Coins in denominations of AOA100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1, and 50, 20 and 10 centimos.
See also Portuguese phrasebook
Portuguese is the official language of Angola. African languages Umbundu, Kimbundu, Kikongo and Bantu are spoken by most of the population.
See also Travel Health
Proof that you had a yellow fever vaccination is required upon entering Angola. You have to have a cholera stamp (prove of the fact that you don't have that desease) in all cases (entering overland and by plane).
It's a good thing to get your vaccinations in order before travelling to Angola. The general vaccination against Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio (DTP) is recommended. Also both hepatitis A as well as typhoid would be recommended.
If you are staying longer than 3 months or have a particular risk (travelling by bike, handling of animals, visits to caves) you might consider a rabies vaccination. Vaccination against Tuberculosis as well as hepatitis B are also sometimes recommended for stays longer than 3 months. When staying longer than 6 months, vaccination against meningitis might be recommended, depending on your contact with other people.
Like most African countries south of the Sahara, Malaria is prevalent in the country. Don't underestimate this tropical disease and take precautions. Buy repellent (preferably with 50% DEET), and sleep under a net. Dengue is present in some parts of the country, mainly around urban areas.
Finally, other possible health issues include diarrhea and other general travellers' diseases like motion sickness. Watch what you eat and drink and in case you get it, drink plenty of fluids (to prevent dehydration) and bring ORS.
See also Travel Safety
See also International Telephone Calls
The country calling code to Angola is: 244
To make an international call from Angola, the code is: 00
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SANFORD — Toby Reid Morrison, 72, of Sanford, North Carolina died Sunday, November 3, 2013 at Sanford Health and Rehabilitation Center after a lengthy illness surrounded by family and friends.
Toby was born in Lee County Hospital on March 23, 1941. He was the son of the late Dan T. Morrison and Pauline Cox Morrison. Toby graduated Moncure High School in 1959 and as a youth, attended Moncure Methodist Church where he participated as a choir member. After graduation from Mitchell's Hair Styling in Raleigh, NC, Toby opened his first successful business in Sanford; Toby's Hairstyling at 107 Gordon Street, winning many competitions in hair design. In 1989, Toby began his second career as an interior designer. He opened The Design Studio at 138 S. Steele Street and became a leader in the state in interior design. He was active in promoting furniture manufacture and fabric design in the state and was the first interior designer to serve on the board of directors for the High Point Design Center. Locally, Toby promoted downtown Sanford by working with several community boards and charitable organizations. He will be remembered for his creativity, his wit and his gentle heart.
He is survived by his brother, Mack Morrison of Moncure, NC; sisters, Gail M. Thomas and husband Halford, Jennie Arnold and husband Wesley, all of Broadway; one aunt, Sadie Lou Coley of South Carolina; also survived by nephews, Jonathan Sullivan and Brian Gillis both of Broadway; Carlton Morrison, Tracy Morrison both of Durham and Travis Arnold of Broadway; one niece Courtney Gillis May of Mt. Airy, MD and several cousins.
The family would like to offer their gratitude to his many friends who supported Toby with their care and concern. And the family offers a special thank you to the staff at Sanford Health and Rehabilitation.
All are invited to celebrate the life of Toby at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 10, 2013 at Carolina Trace Country Club, Sanford, NC.
Private interment will be held at a later date.
Memorials may be made to The Boys and Girls Club of Lee County, Common Thread of Sanford or The Temple Theater.
Online condolences may be left at: www.millerbolesfuneralhome.com.
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SANFORD — Patricia Bellomy, 63, died Tuesday (11/5/13) at her home. Arrangements are incomplete at this time but will be announced by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home.
Condolences may be made at www.bridgescameronfuneralhome.com.
SANFORD — Wilma Nelson of 710 Sanlee Drive died Tuesday (11/5/13) at Sanford Health and Rehabilitation. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Knotts Funeral Home.
CAMERON — Glenn Hugh Jones, 62, of 50 Patroits Way, died Thursday (10/31/13) at his residence.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Eugene and Luberta Goodwin Jones.
Funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at Johnsonville A.M.E. Zion Church. Burial will follow at the Johnsonville Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Kim Ann Jones; sons, Glenn Hugh Jones Jr., David L. Anderson and Alonzo Jones; stepsons, Barry Bowman, Eric Bowman and Jeffrey Brown Jr.; daughter, Charon Jones-Allen; brothers, Calvin Jones and Billy Ray Jones; sisters, Mary Weaver, Viola Jones, Barbara Jones and Shirley Tally; and a host of other relatives and friends.
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She is survived by six children, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Spout Springs Firefighters' Association, 4400 Buffalo Lake Road, Cameron, N.C. 28326.
Arrangements by Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service & Crematory in Bozeman, Mont.
CAMERON — Funeral service for Horace Averett Cameron, 81, who died Saturday (11/2/13), was conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor John Brown and Dr. Carl Matthews officiating. Burial followed at Grace Chapel Cemetery with military honors.
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Pallbearers were David Cameron, David Cameron Jr., Buddy Cameron, Wayne Cameron, Stephen Bowlin and Marvin Ross. Honorary pallbearers were Jim Cameron and Keith Cameron.
Arrangements were by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home.
SANFORD — Graveside service with military honors for Horace Greely Dawson was held Tuesday at Cool Springs Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Don Luellen officiating. A visitation was held before the service at Miller-Boles Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were James Gilmore, George Caviness, Ken Foushee, Jimmie Holt, Randy Gunter, Billy Thomas and Bud Hunter.
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Bump to Bump Maternity Consignment Shop Review
I've said it before – it's nice to save money on maternity clothes since they aren't worn for a long time. Sure, we're pregnant for nearly ten months (whoever tried to convince the world it's only nine months is a liar!!), but our bellies don't expand on day one. Starting to show varies from woman to woman based on things like her build, size and position of baby, what number baby and more. It's not uncommon to go half the pregnancy without showing.
That means we spend too much to wear clothes for only a few months! This also means a lot of our maternity clothes are still in good shape – they're just taking up closet and drawer space. So what if you could sell some of your gently used maternity items and/or buy gently used items for less than retail? Then you should check out Bump to Bump Maternity!
Their site categorizes items for easy searching. Besides gently used maternity wear, they also offer new items too. There's a selection of nursing items (clothing, covers, books, etc.) and gifts too. One of the most unique services they offer is to upcycle your wedding dress into a beautiful baptism gown. What a wonderful idea!
I offered my gift certificate to my sister-in-law who's due at the end of September. She didn't want to get any clothes though since she only has a few months left. I tried to convince her that this site was the way to go because she could get a few things. Then, I started looking at nursing tops and she wanted me to use it. I had a hard time picking something but decided on a teething necklace. My daughter is so distractable while nursing and chewing on everything… hope it helps! (Waiting for it to arrive!)
There are a couple nice features at Bump to Bump Maternity. You can place an item on hold. I don't know for how long since I didn't want to make anything unavailable just for my test. You can also add items to a wish list and send that by email. If you are looking for something specific (like, say, a black dress or a black skirt) you can set it up to email you when an item matching your criteria is listed.
For viewing the items, they provide a decent amount of information about each piece of clothing. I know the manufacturer's don't use a standard for sizes. Some are tighter than others. This can get especially frustrating for us plus sized mamas. Thankfully, they have charts for the size guidelines for several popular manufacturer's in their fitting room. As for pictures… well, the models make it easier to see the clothing. However, the photoslide show pop-up doesn't work for me in Chrome. I didn't try playing around with it in another browser yet. I was bummed that I couldn't at least manually select the other pictures. [Update 6/27: It worked in Firefox!]
Overall, this looks like a nice place to shop for gently used maternity clothes!
Check them out on Facebook too! If they hit 100 fans by June 30th, they'll have a 10% off sale; 250 fans and it will be 25% off!
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Sounds like a great place! I will definitely be checking them out! Thanks for sharing this place! We can all appreciate a savings! :)April
What a fantastic idea. I know that my maternity clothes were in great condition because I really only wore them for a short time. Great suggestion for saving some money!scentednights
Oh NICE! I have such a hard time finding Maternity clothes! My mom usually sews my maternity clothes. Nice to know about this place now. Thanks Darcy!!!Sally
Second hand maternity is the way to go. I borrowed all my maternity clothes during my 1st pregnancy from my sister, and during my second pregnancy I found a lady who was selling all her (designer & name brand) maternity clothes for super cheap. The prices on this site look amazing. Great to know this boutique is out there.ohsosavvymom
girl, you preggers again? LOL
that is very pretty, indeed :)
I love consignment shops for maternity and baby/toddler clothes.. I've never used an online one but it seems pretty well organized.DanielleLW2B
Thanks for sharing…currently looking for online shops like this.gigi_123
i love consighnment stores for clothes, i love the dress pictured abovesherabbit


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga men's tennis team dropped a 4-3 heart breaker to Georgia Southern in the Southern Conference season finale for both teams.
After falling behind 3-0, the Mocs rallied to win the next two matches before the Eagles' Edio Castanhel won his No. 6 match to clinch the win.
The Eagles swept the doubles point, but not without some effort on the part of the Mocs. Gregory Bekkers and Philip Prins won handily over van de Bovenkamp and Gordon Rudell at No. 3 by an 8-2 margin. At No. 2, the Mocs duo Alex Butnarcuic and Dakota Pate battled it out with Justin Flynn and Jayraj Jadeja but the Eagles would prevail to claim the match 9-7. GSU's Joris De Weerdt and Matthew Sands outlasted the Mocs seniors Peter Sauska and Pavel Vostrikov 8-7(7) in a two-hour duel on Senior Day.
Georgia Southern quickly gained a 3-0 advantage immediately winning a pair of singles matches. Flynn blanked UTC's Sam Parfitt 6-0, 6-0 at the No. 5 spot and Jadeja posted a 6-3, 6-1 win over Butnarcuic at No. 3.
Vostrikov, however, would put the Mocs on the board with a 7-5, 7-5 win at the No. 2 spot over Bekkers and Sauska followed that up with a 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 1 over De Weerdt to cut the Eagles' lead to 3-2.
Castanhel outlasted UTC's van de Bovenkamp at No. 6 and got the victory for the Eagles with a 7-6, 6-4 win. Chattanooga's Pate fell behind early at No. 4, dropping the first set 7-6(4) to Alain Garrido but would mount a comeback to claim the next two sets 6-4, 6-0.
The Mocs fall to 2-17 on the year and 0-10 in league play and will be the 11 seed this week at the Southern Conference championships in Elon, N.C. The Eagles improve to 9-8-1 overall and 5-4-1 in league play. The Southern Conference Championships will begin Thursday, April 23 in Elon, N.C.
Tennis Match Results
Georgia Southern vs Chattanooga
Apr 18, 2009 at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Georgia Southern 4, Chattanooga 3
Singles competition
1. Peter Sauska (UTC-M) def. Joris De Weerdt (GSU) 6-4, 6-4
2. Pavel Vostrikov (UTC-M) def. Gregory Bekkers (GSU) 7-5, 7-5
3. Jayraj Jadeja (GSU) def. Alex Butnarcuic (UTC-M) 6-3, 6-1
4. Dakota Pate (UTC-M) def. Alain Garrido (GSU) 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-0
5. Justin Flynn (GSU) def. Sam Parfitt (UTC-M) 6-0, 6-0
6. Edio Castanhel (GSU) def. R. van de Bovenkamp (UTC-M) 7-6, 6-4
Doubles competition
1. Joris De Weerdt/Matthew Sands (GSU) def. Peter Sauska/Pavel Vostrikov (UTC-M) 8-7
2. Justin Flynn/Jayraj Jadeja (GSU) def. Alex Butnarcuic/Dakota Pate (UTC-M) 9-7
3. Gregory Bekkers/Philip Prins (GSU) def. Gordon Rudell/R. van de Bovenkamp (UTC-M) 8-2
Match Notes:
Georgia Southern 9-8, 5-4 SoCon
Chattanooga 2-17, 0-10 SoCon
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (5,3,2,1,6,4)


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Every day for a month, and for free, you can have your fix of the Android Sisters' social satires. These are actually tiny podcasts. Meatball Fulton, writer of these speak-song ditties, will say a few words before each song. He´ll tell you where the idea for the song came from, or who he stole it from, or simply why it´s not his fault. He´ll keep his comments short and snappy. And then he´ll play the song. Who are the sisters? You probably know this one: Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? For the podcast, Click here, or on the picture, to go to the page with the current audio file. The music is by Tim Clark – who is responsible for the great pizza described elsewhere on this blog. For more information go to the ZBS Foundation (there is nothing about pizza at ZBS, search this blog for how to make those pies).
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