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How the BEAST was hired to build James Kopp's beard
Light attracts moths. Fake beards attract comedians. Some laws of nature are simply immutable.
A few weeks ago, BEAST reporter and head coach Slidell Montgomery called me in a panic. He was manic, barely understandable on the phone. The right fake beard story will do that to a professional humorist. "Did you fucking read the newspaper?" he said. "They're going to put Kopp in a fake beard for the lineup!"
"What?" I said.
"James Kopp, the guy accused of shooting the abortion doctor Slepian..."
"I know who he is," I snapped. "What's this about a fake beard?"
Slidell slowed down and explained the story, by now well-known to most everybody in this city. Kopp was to be placed in a lineup wearing a fake beard, fake mustache, and dyed hair to simulate what police say his appearance was four years ago, before he fled in anticipation of arrest for Dr. Barnett Slepian's murder.
The decision by Erie County judge Michael D'Amico was immediately called "highly controversial" in the press for the predictable reason that the defense, led by legendary attorney Paul Cambria, considered the wholescale alteration of a suspect's appearance for a lineup somewhat, er, prejudicial. After all, if you follow the reasoning behind this kind of technique to its logical end, you could conceivably end up with prosecutors dressing up suspects as the Hamburglar, and asking witnesses to pick the criminal out of the lineup. The whole idea seemed shaky, to say the least.
The lineup idea was made even more controversial by the delicate legal gymnastics needed to justify it. Whether or not it actually intended to do so, the prosecution, led by District Attorney Frank Clark and Assistant DA Joe Marusak, could not say that it wanted to make Kopp up to look like the witness descriptions of the person seen outside Dr. Slepian's house in the days before the shooting. That would be prejudicial on its face, so to speak. And the idea of making him up to look like his pictures and mugshots from previous arrests seemed equally ridiculous. That concept reminded me of the old Joseph Heller joke from We Bombed in New Haven:
General to Lieutenant: We're going to bomb them right off the map.
Lieutenant: Why don't we just bomb the map?
If you're making him up to look like a picture, why not just show the picture? And in general the whole idea of having a lineup after four years of intense press coverage of the case, coverage that had the infamous mugshots of Kopp on front pages and on national television about once every five minutes or so, seems ridiculous; it would appear an easy matter for a defense attorney to argue on appeal that the witnesses would not have been able to not know instantly which of the bearded men in the lineup was James Kopp, suspect.
But all of these were abstract legal questions that attorneys on both sides would doubtless argue over for years to come. The questions that came to our minds when we heard about the lineup were more immediate and concrete: Where the hell does an Erie County prosecutor go to find a fake beard? and On a scale of one to ten, exactly how outrageously funny-looking will Kopp's beard be when they finally wheel it out for the lineup?
The range of possibilities was intriguing to consider. Independent of each other, Slidell and I had both immediately focused on the preposterous prop used by Woody Allen in the movie Bananas, in which the Allen character fleeces the entire world, including the analytical department of the CIA, by sporting a three-dollar costume store fake beard as he assumes the identity of a Latin American dictator. We both imagined Kopp in the guise of Allen's Fielding Mellish character, nervously blowing the fake mustache strands off of his lips as he warmed up the United Nations crowd with a joke before a speech: "As I stand here before you today, I am reminded of the farmer who had incestuous relations with his daughter..."
There was also the Abe Lincoln model, an option that seemed too absurd to consider but would later prove not too far off the mark...
enforcement and clever disguise have always been contradictions
in terms. There is no creature on earth less qualified to
avoid the pitfalls of unintentional comedy than a middle-aged
policeman or prosecutor grappling with the nuances of wigs
and makeup. In all of literature there is perhaps no funnier
passage than the section of G. Gordon Liddy's autobiography,
Will, in which
Liddy describes the "disguises" he and fellow White House henchman Howard Hunt used before their break-in into the office of Lewis Fielding, the psychiatrist for Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Liddy and Hunt contrived to wear polyester lounge clothes and special braces on their feet that would make them appear to be walking with limps. Apparently this disguise in the garb of handicapped Floridan tourists would make them less conspicuous as they went about their business of burglarizing a California physician's office at night.
Liddy and Hunt were the best and the brightest in the American security apparatus at the time. If that was what White House first-teamers will come up with in the area of appearance alteration, one can only imagine what an Erie County prosecutor will do when faced with the assignment of finding a fake beard. Unless someone stepped in to save the day, we thought, it was only a matter of time before someone caught Frank Clark roaming the aisles of a Spencer Gift store, rummaging for beards under a pile of magic 8-balls.
We at the BEAST were curious to see how desperate the situation was at the DA's office. So we decided one afternoon last week to put in an exploratory phone call to Marusak, the prosecutor in charge of trying the Kopp case. As it turned out, affairs in their office were in such chaos that what started out as a simple phone gag, spurred by mere curiosity, ended in one of the more surreal episodes in our journalistic careers--with the District Attorney offering us, in a formal face-to-face interview, the job of making up the face of James Kopp.
In our initial phone call, we decided to just throw a few things against the wall, just to see what would stick. As is becoming increasingly evident, walls are very sticky in this town when it comes to pranks. Posing as "Aaron Wolfsheim," a vacationing Hollywood makeup artist, I spoke first to a switchboard operator, then to attorney Jeff Hagen, and finally to Marusak, to whom I cordially offered my services:
Marusak: Joe Marusak.
BEAST: Hello, Mr. Marusak?
Marusak: Yes?
BEAST: Hi, my name is Aaron Wolfsheim. I'm a makeup artist.
Marusak: Okay!
BEAST: I'm actually a Buffalo native, but I work in Los Angeles.
Marusak: Uh-huh.
BEAST: I've done a lot of work in movies. I worked on Planet of the Apes. I don't know if you saw the recent movie, but I did Helena Bonham Carter's makeup.
Marusak: [skeptically] Okay...
BEAST: And I'm home visiting relatives, and I was reading about this Kopp trial. And I was wondering if you'd found someone to do the makeup for the lineup, and if you'd be interested in seeing some of my work.
Marusak: Yeah! I would! In fact, it's ironic that you called, because we're in the process right now of trying to, uh, use someone. I had someone that I used on a criminal case, oh, God, it must have been ten years ago. And the telephone numbers that I have for her are no longer valid, so...
BEAST: So you haven't found anybody, huh?
Marusak: So we struck out there.
A decade of Law and Order episodes had not prepared me for the reality of a District Attorney who stops at dialing an old telephone number when searching for someone who is not hiding. It seemed to me that any adult American male over the age of twenty who has ever been so hard up for sex that he's been forced to look up an old girlfriend would know how to proceed past the "old telephone number no longer works" problem. Momentarily unnerved, I pressed on:
Marusak: We're in the process of looking, so yeah, I would definitely like to see something, uh, that you've done.
BEAST: Well, if you just want something for a preliminary look, you can see some of the movies that I've done. I was in Splash 3, I did all of the costumes for that...
There never was a Splash 3. Marusak was unfazed:
Marusak: Uh-huh!
BEAST: And, like I said, I did Planet of the Apes, I did Helena Bonham Carter... and, uh [scrambling to think], I worked for Dino Di Laurentis for many years.
Marusak: [impressed] Oh!
BEAST: So I'm just home for a couple of weeks...
Marusak: Oh, perfect!
BEAST: I could come by any time.
Marusak: Do you have your materials with you?
BEAST: Yeah, I have a kit. I'm working on some models while I'm here.
Marusak: Okay!
Genuinely freaked out by this point, I decided, in a panic almost, to throw something else out there:
BEAST: There might be some things that I'm missing, but... I'm good. I'm so good, if I did you, they'd pick you out of the lineup.
Marusak: [again impressed] Wowwwww!
BEAST: [laughing] So when would be a good time for me to come by?
Marusak: Well, how about... well, let's see. Let's take a peek about my calendar... Today is the 23rd. How is Thursday, the 25th?
BEAST: Sounds good.
Marusak: What's good for you?
BEAST: How about sometime after noon?
Marusak: Okay. Let's shoot for two o'clock.
BEAST: Okay.
As soon as this phone call was over (Marusak spent an inordinate amount of time giving me directions not only to his office building, but from the elevator on his floor to his office), I hung up the phone and sat for a moment in stunned silence. There seemed to be no question that I actually had to go in to Marusak's office for the interview. God's vengeance is unerring when such rare opportunities as these are squandered. Little as I liked the idea of waltzing into the District Attorney's office to pull this kind of stunt, I knew there was no way out.
But what would I do if he actually offered me the job? That was a trickier question, but after a heated discussion in the BEAST offices, we settled on a plan for that, too. In the meantime, we had a serious task before us: we had less than 48 hours to turn me into a plausible candidate for a job in a million-dollar, internationally celebrated criminal trial.
One of the ironic things about this story is that within about twenty minutes after our call to Marusak, we at the BEAST managed to track down a qualified professional makeup artist, with a degree in industrial design that included training in makeup and effects, who was willing to teach us the ropes of fake beard application. This was clearly the first order of business. If I was going to go in to the DA's office and interview for the Kopp makeup job, I needed to sound like I knew what I was talking about.
It seemed impossible that a bunch of slackers running a two-bit humor newspaper would be able to instantly find the right guy for the job right here in Buffalo, when a mighty state apparatus with an unlimited budget couldn't manage to find anyone, anywhere, qualified or not, in any length of time. But this was apparently the case.
While I met with the Expert for my beard tutorial, our designers set to work making up the necessary props for Aaron Wolfsheim's resume. Pressed for time, we focused on the essentials. Any reputable special effects artist, we knew, would want first and foremost to be able to show a picture of himself on the cover of Fangoria magazine, that blood-spattered Bible of the effects industry. We dug up an old back issue at Queen City Bookstore that featured a mangled latex head from the movie F/X; our nymphomaniac trailer-trash designer Velma Stark scanned it in, adding in one corner a doctored photo that featured my face on the body of an effects artist with a truly spectacular early-90s mullet. The picture could not possibly have been more ridiculous, but there was no question of not trying to use it. Underneath the photo, we added the dramatic headline: AARON WOLFSHEIM BREAKS THE MOLD.
Next step: the obligatory photo of a slightly older Aaron Wolfsheim with his arm around Robert Englund, a.k.a. Freddie Krueger. The original photo we found featured Englund with his arms around a man in his late thirties who had the awful haircut and hideously unhealthy body of a top-flight Hollywood cosmetic artist. I posed for a picture that imitated the expression on the man's face, looking in mock fright down and to my right at Englund's famous razor-bladed fingers resting on my shoulder. Velma morphed that picture onto the original, and there I was, sporting a prominent set of middle-aged man-titties and standing with my arms around Freddie Krueger.
We made a few other pictures, including an 8x11 still of Helena Bonham-Carter in ape costume, which I was going to point to as my "crowning achievement" (I also planned to drop hints that I'd had an affair with the actress, but, sadly, the opportunity never arose). Then we drew up a set of campy business cards with a Planet of the Apes theme (Aaron worked for a company called "Modern Prosthetics" that specialized in "Meeting the economic prosthetic, mask, makeup, realistic recreation and effects needs of the motion picture, film, video and theater industries"), and set to work sketching out a believable biography for Mssr. Wolfsheim. Among other things, I planned to have him take credit for building the Sasquatch costume from a Carlsberg commercial from the early nineties, one which "didn't get a lot of airplay" but was "well-received by people in the business."
I got a good night's sleep the night before the meeting. Then, in the morning, I met Velma to gather up the sight gags before retiring to our offices in the luxurious Statler Towers to get mentally prepared.
On the way out the door just before two, I realized I'd made a serious error. The previous evening, one of our other designers, who'd been in charge of making the business cards, had called me to ask what telephone number to put under Aaron's name.
"Put Artvoice's number on there," I'd said reflexively, not even thinking.
"Done," he'd said.
Now I had a stack of those cards in hand and I realized that they all bore numbers with 716 area codes--which didn't exactly fit the profile of a Los Angeles-based effects artist. In a panic, I took a pen and frantically crossed out all of the 716's as I walked across Niagara Square, replacing them all with the more appropriate 323 area code.
Confidence momentarily rattled, I walked into the DA's office at 25 Delaware, passed through the metal detector, and headed for the third floor. I needed to take a leak, but I was afraid to ask anyone where the bathroom was. I was sure that the fraud was written on my face so clearly that the first word out of my mouth would get me shot with a Taser gun and dragged into custody. But I wasn't able to stall for long before a short bald man in shirtsleeves and a tie caught me meandering in the third-floor hallway.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Yes," I said. "I'm looking for Joe Marusak."
"And you are?" he asked.
"Aaron Wolfsheim," I said. "I'm a makeup artist... I have an appointment."
"Oh, hello, Aaron," he said, shaking my hand. "I'm Jeff Hagen. We spoke on the phone. He's expecting you."
"Uh-huh. Do you have a rest room?" I blurted out.
Hagen led me to a rest room, right up to the door. For a moment I thought he was going to come in with me. But he backed away at the last moment, then waited in the hallway... When I came out a moment later, he led me into his office for what I quickly gathered would be some kind of pre-interview.
"Joe's on the phone," he explained. "In the meantime, I'll just need to ask you a few questions."
Hagen pulled out a fresh yellow legal pad and glared at me with a blank expression.
"So what's your connection to Buffalo, Aaron?" he said, not smiling.
It took me about two seconds to grasp the perilous dynamics of the situation. On the phone, Hagen's boss, Marusak, sounded exactly like what one would expect a grandstanding trial prosecutor would sound like: comically bombastic in tone, megalomaniacal, none too bright, and consumed with a fairly narrow range of predictably vulgar political ambitions, a man who, in all likelihood, owns four sharp suits and a carefully-attended anchorman haircut. Behind every such man in this world there is a less photogenic man who is usefully paranoid and is the real brains of the operation. This was the person who was interrogating me now.
I volleyed back each of his questions with my lame preconceived answers: I was born in the Buffalo area, but moved to Massachusetts as a small child. After retirement, my father had moved back to the city and settled in Allentown, where I was now staying for a two-week visit. I gave him an address and a telephone number, the former bogus, the latter belonging to co-editor Kevin McElwee's mobile account.
"Do you have a business card?" he asked, still not smiling.
I handed him my card. "You'll see the area code is crossed out..." I began.
"Why?" he asked.
"They added a new area code in LA," I said. "My number used to be... in the 213 area."
Hagen examined it, then put it aside before sitting up straight to face me.
"You understand the reason I'm asking you all of these questions," he said. "You know the nature of this case?"
"Yes," I said. "But only what I read in the papers."
"Well, you see, the thing is, you know, there are some people who might want to create a provocation," he said. "And you know, you called us, we didn't call you. So obviously we have to check..."
"Obviously," I said. "I understand, this is a sensitive case...you have to be wary."
Hagen flipped closed the legal pad. A chilling idea which had occurred vaguely to me at the start of the meeting now rose violently to the surface of my thoughts. If Hagen did not join in during the meeting with Marusak, would he excuse himself to start conducting his background check right away? One phone call to the fictitious number on my business card, and I was dead meat. Again the visions: Marusak's door bursting open, more Taser guns, dogs, carpet burns, the exposed out-of-shape journalist clutching wildly at a desk leg as he is dragged off...
"I think Joe's off the phone," Hagen said suddenly, interrupting my fantasies. "Please, come on in."
Hagen and I walked into the office next door, and he closed the door behind us. He wasn't going anywhere; I was safe.
Behind the desk sat a dazed-looking man with an anchorman haircut, who even when sitting, appeared to be standing with his hands on his hips.
"Aaron Wolfsheim," I said.
"Joe Marusak," he answered.
There's never been any question in my mind that life is stranger than fiction. That's why I got into journalism. The material is so much more challenging.
In my pre-interview, Hagen had, by way of asking me how long the process of applying a fake beard would take, given me a hint as to their earlier progress in wrestling with the whole beard issue. He showed me a fax some out-of-town outfit had sent him that included rough diagrams of various beard shapes. The fax was grainy and nearly illegible; the "beards" looked like Rorschach tests.
"We understand this is sort of a drawn-out process," he'd said. "These other people we're talking to were saying that what you do is take an Abe Lincoln beard, and cut it down..."
The image of James Kopp, right-wing nut case, standing in a lineup with an Abe Lincoln beard nearly felled me from my chair. I recovered myself in time to affect a convincing sneer of professional disdain and begin to explain the actual process of making a professional-caliber fake beard. Hagen had sat quietly, taking notes.
Now, in the meeting with both attorneys, I entered into my speech again. Marusak, a fit-looking man with a vague and unfortunate resemblance to character actor Fred Ward, sat at his desk in a pose eerily reminiscent of the classic reverse cutaway shot used in TV journalism--the one where the TV journalist is shown sitting with his hands folded on his lap, nodding seriously as he listens to his interview subject. Those shots are sometimes done after the fact, but this one was happening in real time.
Amazingly, my nervous astonishment in looking at him suddenly translated into an impassioned and utterly believable imitation of a Hollywood effects pro.
"No professional would ever just stick on an actual fake beard," I said. "A realistic beard is applied hair by hair. For a short beard, the process is fairly simple. You apply spirit gum to the face. Then you take a human-hair wig that matches the color you want, and cut the hairs into small strips. You take those strips and you roll them up lengthwise and wrap them in a little blanket, so that you end up with something that looks like a little cigar, or... sushi."
"Sushi," repeated Marusak.
"Then you take the sushi and you dab it onto the subject's face," I continued. "The hairs will tend to stick to the gum straight out. Once you've finished applying the hairs to the whole face, you comb it in the shape that you want, and you've got your beard."
"I see," Marusak said, sounding not all that interested in the particulars. "Well, he has a short bear-..."
"For a long beard," I said, ignoring him. I was in a zone."The process is more complex. You take this stuff called slush latex and you apply it to the face, so that you have a sort of thin rubber coating. Then, with a needle, you apply each individual hair strand by strand, sticking it into the latex. The process takes a long time. When you're finished, you pull each of the hairs slightly, so that they come out of the latex a little. The effect is to make it more realistic, because those little tugs will leave tiny indentations in the latex that look like pores."
"How long will this take?" Marusak said, showing me a picture of Kopp. "He had a fairly short beard..."
I didn't have the faintest fucking idea. "About two hours," I said confidently. "If you're looking at something shorter, like in that other picture, about an hour and a half." I paused, coming to the important question. "Do you want me to do just him, or everybody?"
Marusak shrugged. "Nah, they're bellyaching about us just doing one person, you know, like it'll be obvious if there's just one guy in a fake beard..."
No kidding, I thought.
"...so we're thinking we're going to have at least one other clean-shaven person in the lineup who get s a fake beard, maybe two, I don't know. Can you do that?"
"No problem," I said.
Going in to the interview, I was extremely curious to find out exactly how they wanted Kopp made up. Was he supposed to be given the beard that he would have been wearing on the day in question? That would be tough to do, since no one knows what kind of beard he was wearing that day; there are no photos, no witnesses who saw him. (Witnesses saw someone in a car outside Slepian's home in the days leading up to the shooting, but none of them knew for sure that it was James Kopp). He might not have been wearing a beard at all, for all anyone knows.
If not exactly that beard, then, which one? Over the course of his life, Kopp wore beards of different lengths and hues. The mugshots of him show sharply various facial hair arrangements. Would they just pick one or the other? And if they did, choosing randomly, on the basis of nothing at all, how could that conceivably correspond to what he might have looked like on the day of the murder?
Marusak showed me a pair of old Kopp photos.
"Which one do you want me to do?" I asked.
Marusak shrugged. "Probably a combination of both," he said.
I pointed to a photograph of Kopp wearing what looked to be a bright orange beard. "Is that a fake beard right there?" I asked.
"No," Marusak said. "His hair color was usually described as reddish-brown... That's his real hair."
I shook my head. "The thing is, if I do that beard, it's going to look like a fake beard, " I said. "Not for any reason except that his actual beard looked like a fake."
Marusak paused, then pointed to the photo of Kopp wearing a darker, more normal-looking beard. "Let's go with that one," he said.
Well, that settles that, I thought, taking in the depressing thought that Marusak might have just made me a witness at the trial. "Okay," he said.
talked a little bit more. Very quickly the conversation swung
around to my
work. I opened a manila envelope and began handing Marusak my resume shots.
"This is me in, er, a less physically fit period of my life, standing with Robert Englund--you know, Freddie Krueger," I said.
"Oh, great!" he said.
"I actually didn't do his face," I explained. "My job, believe it or not, was the sweater. It looks like an ordinary sweater, but it has all these moving parts inside."
"Huh!" he said.
"And this is me on the cover of Fangoria magazine," I said. "I had this great haircut back then. That bloody head I designed was my real career break."
"Nice," he said.
"And this, of course, is Helena Bonham Carter in Planet of the Apes," I said. "That's what I spent most of last year working on."
'So, what's your timetable next week again?" Marusak asked.
Lost in professional pride, I didn't hear him. "The funny thing about those masks," I said. "The original Planet of the Apes masks were just masks. You stuck them on the face and that was it. But these new ones we designed are completely animatronic. There are little electronic parts in every section of the face. You move your upper lip, the upper lip moves."
"That's... interesting," he said unconvincingly.
They asked me again about my schedule. It was clear I had the job. I told them that there was an outside chance that I'd have to be called back to L.A. immediately to do a project, but that, barring that, I was free to do it early the next week. Hagen told me that "we're happy to have someone with your qualifications."
"I hope we can all work together," Marusak said.
"I think it will all work out," I said, eyeing the exit.
We all shook hands and I left-- in a hurry.
Don't get me wrong. I hate those anti-abortion maniacs as much as anybody. As far as I'm concerned, if Kopp is guilty, he ought to be shot into space. And I think that every church in America ought to donate a million dollars apiece to Dr. Slepian's family, so that even his great-grandchildren will never have to work a day in their lives. Jesus Christ! Shooting a doctor in the name of God! What's wrong with these people?
But what if the suspect wasn't an asshole like Kopp? What if it's you or me in a drug case? You put a bunch of people like this in charge of the lineup, and who isn't going to pick out the suspect? Left to their own devices, Kopp would be standing there in an Abe Lincoln beard!
And even if the guy is guilty, trotting him out there like that seems like far from a public service. Any sane appeals court judge might take one look at the transcript, decide the witnesses have been tainted, and throw out the whole case. Next thing you know, some abortion doctor in Pittsburgh is getting shot in his backyard next to his Hibachi. The whole thing is so nuts, it's almost hard to laugh about it.
A few hours after my interview, I called Hagen. He wasn't in. I left a message on his machine, explaining that I was being called away to Baton Rouge, to shoot a movie called Crawslaught (about mutant crawfish run amok) and would be unable to do the lineup.
Five minutes later, Hagen called Kevin's cell phone number. The latter explained that he didn't know any Aaron Wolfsheim. He called back, apparently in the hope that he'd dialed wrong. Same deal. They apparently didn't look very hard after that. Let's hope they don't read the BEAST...


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Otis Brooks, a neighbor and friend of Butts, has told authorities he saw and greeted Butts that morning as he passed his front door on his sojourn wearing a colorful blue T-shirt. Brooks adds he remembers his friend's skin tone was particularly visible that morning and "you could see his arms."
Even Hopper has admitted to a grand jury, "I could tell that he was black" and his mother previously told CNN she felt "it was racist and two of those kids freaked out and couldn't do anything to get out of the car."
Hope Hopper has not since spoken publicly amid reports she and her family are now receiving death threats. The case holds eerie similarities to the June 2011 slaying of fellow Mississippi native James Craig Anderson.
Anderson, 47, was killed in nearby Jackson, some 150 miles or so outside of Panola County, after being unmercifully beaten and run over by a group of seven white teens. Driver Deryl Dedmon, who led the pack by imploring "let's go f*** with some niggers," eventually pled guilty along with all the others, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
"At this point, we are just trying to make sure there is a full investigation of the incident," local NAACP president Derrick Johnson said of the Butts' case.
All throughout this largely, still segregated stretch of Mississippi, confederate flags still fly high and adorn home fronts as blighted illustrations of pride and prejudice.
"Actually, I think that those guys saw John walking and I believe they said 'There goes a N-word," Pastor Fred Butts said of his brother. "And I believe that's what makes that guy just go turn over there, and just ran him over on purpose. He did do it on purpose. You know, you don't run over a dog on purpose."
Later that day, Hopper and the juvenile passenger turned themselves in to police, even predicting to authorities that Darby would claim to have struck a deer when investigators moved to inspect his vehicle. Darby even denied drinking and smoking earlier that evening, even though he has also since been charged with burglarizing an area church that same night.
Darby is now being held on $300,000 bond, though he has yet to formally enter a plea. The FBI has also moved in to probe the case, though they now find themselves at stark odds with Champion over the status of the investigation.
In defending his decision thus far not to charge Darby with a hate crime, Champion recently contended the FBI was in agreement with his assessment. Yet, FBI officials recently told CNN the agency "absolutely considers the investigation to be still open."
Darby is scheduled for trial next month, where a conviction on murder could mean a life sentence. A conviction under Mississippi's hate crime laws could spell even more enhanced penalties. Hopper and the juvenile in question have yet to be officially charged.
"Yes, I do," Donny Butts answered when asked if he felt his father's killing equaled that of a modern day lynching. "What else could it have been? I believe my daddy was lynched because [of] the color of his skin."
Glenn Minnis is a NYC-based sports and culture writer. Follow him on Twitter at @glennnyc.

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High School Sports: Basketball, track (shotput), volleyball
Major at Washington: Sociology
Husky Rowing Experience: 2011 (Senior) - Rowed in the Huskies varsity eight that competed at the NCAA Championships in Gold River, Calif. ... Rowed four seat for the women's varsity eight that won the Women's Windermere Cup, defeating Cambridge and Oklahoma 2010 (Sophomore) - Member of the Varsity four in every race this season...gold medalist at Pac-10 Championships...earned victories over Washington State and California during the regular racing season. 2009 (Freshman) - Rowed with the novice squad.
Personal: Daughter of Richard and Becky White ... Mother, Becky, is a nurse ... Has two older brothers, Warren (30) and Ben (28) ... Her grandfather, Bob White, and uncle, David White, both attended UW and were on the rowing team


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OMM 503: Supply Chain & IT
Synonym:70998 (for web registration)
Faculty:William Griffith
Semester:Fall 2010
Meeting Schedule:Sat 9/11 (8:30AM-5:29PM)
Sat 10/2 (8:30AM-5:29PM)
Sat 10/23 (8:30AM-5:29PM)
Sat 11/20 (8:30AM-5:29PM)
Sat 12/11 (8:30AM-5:29PM)
Competency Area: Management & Decision Making
Required of and restricted to second year O&M Weekend MBA students who entered Summer 2009 and Fall 2009 entering; others by written permission of Program Director provided to Registrar's Office via Antioch email.
This course provides an enhanced understanding of key concepts in supply chain management. The systems approach and a process orientation are explored at the individual-firm level and from the perspective of collaborative relationships among participants in logistics supply chains. Case studies are used to explore the impact supply chain and operations management has on businesses today. The course provides opportunities to investigate individual supply chain topics such as approaches to planning and managing inventory across supply chains, value creation through alignment and realignment of supply chain capabilities, the distinction of supply and value chain in sustainable businesses, integration of technology and supply chain performance metrics. The course will introduce student s to a variety of operations management techniques as they relate to "green" business practices and green technology. Students will do additional readings and discussions in Sakai and online. Students should check the course site on Sakai for online assignments that will begin prior to the first class meeting.


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A Culver City Car Accident Lawyer Discusses Accident Types and Injuries
A seasoned Culver City accident attorney knows that car, truck and motorcycle accidents happen with troubling regularity in Culver City, California. These accidents have certain, almost predictable causes and tragic outcomes. We'll start with a snapshot of this city's sobering accident statistics.
Car Accidents in Culver City Take a Heavy Toll in Human Lives
Statistics compiled by the California Highway Patrol's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) showed that in 2006, four people lost their lives and 313 people were injured in Culver City car crashes. One bicyclist died and 17 were injured. Pedestrian accidents injured 28 and motorcycle accidents injured 34. Impaired drivers were blamed with three deaths and 23 injuries. In 2007, four car accidents resulted in four fatalities. In 2008, three car accidents resulted in as many deaths.
Culver City Motor Vehicle Accidents by Type and Cause
Experienced Culver City car accident attorneys know that Culver City is a dense municipality where trucks, cars, SUVs and motorcycles converge in daily heavy commuter and business traffic. Truck and motorcycle accidents typically result in serious injuries and death--far more often than in a car accident. Accidents involving trucks are typically caused by tire blowouts, brake failure, truck driver fatigue, speeding or reckless driving, load shifting, poor repair or maintenance, and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Motorcycle accidents often result in a fatality or life-threatening head and neck injuries, spinal injuries and paralysis. The causes of motorcycle accidents vary but are most often the result of drivers not paying attention, speeding, reckless driving and DUI.
Low-speed rear-end collisions are the least deadly type of accident that occur in Culver City. However, rear-end crashes can result in severe soft tissue injuries as well as many kinds of back and neck injuries. The fault for these types of crashes usually lies with the driver who rear-ends the person ahead of him. But rear-end collisions can have extenuating circumstances. For example, the driver who was struck from behind could be at fault for having improperly functioning brake lights, or for making an abrupt stop, unsafe turn or sudden lane change. Rear-end collisions are typically caused by unsafe cell phone use (very common in Culver City), or when drivers reach for objects in the glove compartment, on the floor or in the back seat.
Talk to a Car Accident Lawyer If You Get Into an Accident in Culver City
If you are injured in a car, truck or motorcycle accident, an experienced Culver City car crash lawyer can advise you as to who was at fault and what you should do to ensure you are fairly compensated for your losses. The most respected car accident lawyers offer no charge, no pressure consultations. Should you retain the lawyer, fees are usually on a contingency basis (paid after your case settles).
For further discussion, read "The Seven Fatal Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Personal Injury Claim" by California personal injury attorney John Bisnar.


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Waste Disposal at the Pebble Mine
"The processing of ore promotes the dissolution and mobilization of elements present in the ore…Consequently, tailings undergo chemical reactions after their deposition in the repository and their composition changes over time." 1
Tailings are one form of waste generated from mining. When mined. low grade porphery deposits, like the proposed Pebble prospect, will generate large volumes of waste2 . For example, processing 10 billion tons of ore can produce up to 9.9 billion tons of tailings. Mine tailings contain solids and liquids, metals, and processing chemicals. The solids are primarily clay, silt and sand. Some mined minerals and associated elements will occur in tailings, such as: aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, copper, chromium, cobalt, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, zinc, sulfides, and natural radioactive constituents. The composition of tailings depends on ore composition and processing chemicals used.
Tailing liquids will contain some processing chemicals (e.g., Cyanide, Xanthates, etc.) and petroleum products (e.g., diesel, oil, gas, etc.) 3. Tailings that contain reactive sulfides- which are present in the Pebble deposit, - can generate sulfuric acid if exposed to both air and water; thus they are often stored underwater4 . Both solid and liquid components of mine tailings can be toxic and impair natural ecosystem function if not contained properly.
- 1Lotterman, BG. 2007, Mine Wastes, Second Edition, characterization, treatment, environmental impacts. Page 154.
- 2Lotterman, BG. 2007, Pages 152-157
- 3ibid
- 4U.S. EPA. 1994. Acid Mine Drainage Prediction, http://www.epa.gov/nps/acid_mine.html
Further Reading and References
Pebble Limited Partnership References
Backgrounder - Tailings and Tailings Management (pdf file 1.96 mb)
Backgrounder - Assessing and Managing Seismic Risk (pdf file 2.18 mb)
Independent Scientists References
Byrne, P. M. and M. Seid-Karbasi. 2003. Seismic Stability of Impoundments. 17th Annual Symposium, Vancouver Geotechnical Society. (pdf file 538 kb)
Coleman, T. W. and A. Perales. 1998. Boliden Apirsa, Los Frailes Tailings Incident - Technical Report. Mining and Environment Research Network. University of Bath, United Kingdom. (pdf file 408 kb)
Davies, M. P. 2002. Tailings Impoundment Failures: Are Geotechnical Engineers Listening? Waste Geotechnics. Geotechnical News. 31-36. (pdf file 157 kb)
Haeussler, P. J. and R. W. Saltus. 2004. 26 km of Offset on the Lake Clark Fault Since Late Eocene Time. Stuides by the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS Professional Paper 1709-A. (pdf file 1.35 mb)
Kroll, A. M., G. Betlem, and J. M. Amezaga. 2002. Mine Water Pollution and European Policies. (pdf file 52 kb)
Martin, T. E., M. P. Davies, T. Higgs, and P. C. Lighthall. 2002. Stewardship of Tailings Facilities. AMEC Earth and Environmental Limited. (pdf file 1.15 mb)
Peplow, D. and R. Edmonds. 2005. The effects of mine waste contamination at multiple levels of biological organization. Ecological Engineering 24(2005)101-119. (pdf file 548 kb)
Rico, M., G. Benito, A. R. Salgueiro, A. Diez-Herrero, and H. G. Pereira. 2008. Reported Tailings Dam Failures: A Review of the European Incidents in the Worldwide Context. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 152(2008)846-852. (pdf file 504 kb)
Rudolph, T. and W. G. Coldewey. Implications of Earthquakes on the Stability of Tailings Dams. International Mine Water Association. (pdf file 227 kb)
Schwartz, N. 2008. Desert wind blows health risks from California mines. Associated Press. Sunday, December 21, 2008. (pdf file 14 kb)


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Here's how RW members rated this race (42 votes).
In short: Second time doing this race- Great fun yet againIn full: This was my second time running this race- prepared myself for the hills and knocked 10 mins off my previous time. Really fun race- can be a great opportunity to strengthen the legs and the mind.This was my only repeat race due to the challenge of it last year- great times!Date of review: April 15, 2013
Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Friendly, pretty and well organisedIn full: An excellent event. Well organised (obviously made the needed tweaks from last year). A hilly route so may not be the easiest for a debutant. Made more difficult today due to the wind, but thoroughly enjoyed a touhg run. Technical tee much preferred to a medal by me. Becoming a MUST DO run. Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: Unrecognisable from last year!!In full: I slated this race last year, but fair play to the organisers today was excellent!Parking was smooth (and free), the start was more organised, there were mile markers for pacing and no loop at the end.All in all a great race in ideal conditions. Only thing for next year is I would say they could squeeze another water station in, 2nd water station wasn't until around mile 8 which with the hills could have come a little earlier!As for the medal/t-shirt debate, I'm chuffed with the technical t-shirt, who wants a medal that sits in your bottom drawer? At least you can wear the t-shirt on training runs/gym!Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: we want a medalIn full: start was better than last year but still slowtoo much traffic on route but overall organised very well.disappointing no medal or goody bag just water and t shirt could have done with something to nibble .A good race we will be back next year.Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: No finishers medal!!!!!!! Thanks for coming guys!!!In full: Could have a good day out, parking was better this year, friendly event, nice run.....but nothing to show for entry fee and 13 mile run, think I will just do a 13 mile traing run next year and make my own medal you can get a nice one from poundland!,,,Date of review: April 14, 2013
In short: A bit disorganised, delayed start, dodgy cone finish could of been betterIn full: As a local I didn't experience the parking issues but will say in the events defence that the fee was advertised on their site, even so I thought it was harsh to charge as the ground would have been empty on a Sunday morning anyway. If fee was going to charity fine but a quid would of been enough. At first no one appeared to know what was happening and when I made my way to the start , which wasn't very well sign posted we had the news of the delay. Once underway the course was certainly challenging with some nice ascents. Mile markers were missing but it didn't concern me that much. The finish was disappointing, any momentum built up was lost having to do a 180 turn around a cone before entering the rugby club, surely move the finish line or start back a bit. Was gutted to find no medal in a poor goody bag but the organisers very kindly sent me one in the post so fair play for that. Results took a while to be posted but still got the official verdict on the evening. This could be a great race with a few tweaks and hopefully they will take on board the comments and improve it for next year. Date of review: April 24, 2012
In short: Very Good Friendly Race :-)In full: Nice route, quite challenging if you're going for a PB but on the upside definitely not flat and boring.There was some issues with a delayed start but I always turn up in plenty of time so had no problems parking and the facilities were really good. I thought the pre-race communication was good too so had expected the missing mile markers, really pleased i had my garmin though so i knew how i was getting on.A few good suggestions on here as to how things could have been improved but overall a good event, thanks.Date of review: April 20, 2012
In short: A fantastic run, very friendly and a great day overallIn full: I didn't find the parking a problem as I live a 5 minute walk away so I wasn't aware of the parking problems. The small delay at the start i didn't really find an issue, it was a cold morning but Threshold events can't be responsible for the weather. I found the route beautiful and it made a nice change to run a scenic route rather than on busy roads. I didn't find the traffic an issue i think around 8 cars maximum went past me the whole course. Im found the signs very clear on which side of the road to run on and the marshalls were excellent! very friendly and supportive also in all the right places, water stations were good and a bonus having water in bottles not cups. A few hills but nothing too challenging, the support for the locals was brilliant I was at the back of the pack as a slow runner and they were still out cheering and clapping. The medal was great and tshirt too,for an more indepth review on this race and other events please see my running blog http://marathonmorris.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/running-bucket-list.htmlDate of review: April 18, 2012
In short: First half in 9 years - not bad and a good challenge but some teething issues.In full: I agree with several of the comments already posted - parking fee - luckily I was prepared with a load of pound coins but I thought £3 was a bit steep. Secondly the baggage drop off wasn't great - I left mine with the plastic bag with my name on with a man behind a rope assuming he'd be there when I got back to hand them out but there was nobody there when I finished and I could have taken anybodies bag. The 15 minute delay was annoying and I needed the toilet after about 30secs of running - the horse and foal that came over to see me and the three others using the field was both interesting and off-putting! The course was up and down (it seemed more up to me) but the pockets of support were very good. In defence of the missing mile markers there was an announcement at the start to say they had been stolen overnight so I knew to expect no signs. Overall half and half for a half.Date of review: April 18, 2012
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Happy Birthday to the Lightbulb
Posted by Cynthia | Filed under Musings
'Thomas Edison's first successful test of a long-lasting carbon filament took place on October 22, 1879.' A discovery that has changed the very way we live and engage in our environments. A source of light, functioning beyond the expected, visually warming a room, and providing a focal point. Bulbrite's introduction of the Nostalgic light bulb collection is beautiful indeed. With eye catching and intricate filament designs, they can be used both indoors and out. Spectacular enlightenment.
Images and excerpt sourced at Unbiased Writer.
Tags: architecture, Bulbrite, Incandescent Lightbulb, interior design, lightbulb, lighting design, Nostalgic Collection, vintage lighting
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We want to do the right thing and buy compact fluorescent and LED lightbulbs. But, in our high visibility decorative fixtures, it's often a stretch from an aesthetic point of view.
Many of us feel that we compromise the quality of light, as well as the overall visual effect of our lighting elements. Meet Plumen, the worlds first designer energy saving light bulb.
Designed by Samuel Wilkinson, Plumen uses 80% less energy than the traditional incandescent light bulb, reducing energy costs, and reducing the impact on the environment. It lasts 8 times longer than a traditional incandescent bulb.
The name of the new bulb comes from "plume", which is a birds show feather, designed to attract attention to their beauty. I do think these lumens are worthy of their name. Certainly an interesting alternative to the typical fare. When you think about it, the glass rods of a compact fluorescent fixture can be created in any form. So, why are there only three on the market? Plumen is a welcome beacon. "The Plumen light bulb screws into any standard bulb fitting, gives off a warm white light and will work either shaded or even better, completely naked". Plumen
Until recently, Plumen could only be purchased in Europe in 220V. Now, these bulbs can be purchased for use in the United States in a 120V version as well. Checkout the Plumen website for ordering details. http://www.plumenshopus.com
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Do any of you stay in contact with your past loves regardless if you're married or still searching for a new love? Recently, I was contacted by an old love from the 80's (We were both pretty young in those days). This happened last Thursday afternoon (April 16) when we talked for a bit when she called me and told me Natasha (our daughter) had a message for me that she was without phone service and that she got what she needed to get for Alex (our grandson) when I gave her $50 to get it with when she was down the previous Monday (April 13). We talked for about an hour that afternoon, and it was a pretty good talk. Ann told me that she would call me back a little later on. She finally did call back around 12:30am Friday (April 17), and we ended up talking for almost 3 hours. We talked about our days together and how young we were, along with some other things from our past. Both of us never had a problem with each other and never said a bad word about each other to Natasha. We had nothing but good things to say about each other. I have always felt bad that I took Ann for granted when I was with her, and I was also carrying a torch for my first love from high school (Jennifer....I had gone with her briefly when I was 16, but had a couple of flings with her in late 1990 into early 1991. And again in the summer of 1997 into early 1998). I had made a mistake talking about Jennifer when I was with Ann from 1984 through 1988. I really didn't realize how happy I was until Ann was no longer there in my life after 1989. We talked about all this that night and I asked her for forgiveness. She did forgive me. It also brought back some hurt memories for her about how she felt like she came in second to Jennifer, and she got a little chocked up about it all. I told her that I was young and immature, and I felt so bad having done that to her. We both admitted that we still have a lot of feelings for each other after all this time. Since that night we have talked on and off over the phone for long periods of time. We also realize that there are some hurdles in the way in both of us ever getting back together again. Time will tell how things will work out for both of us, but for now, I'm taking it one step at a time and hoping for the best.
Late last night she called me and we talked for 2 in a half hours. One of the things she told me was Natasha called off her wedding for next month. Natasha thought that it would be better to wait on marriage with Branden. But with Tash, ya never know what she's going to do from one minute to another.
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Apr 24 @ 6:51PM
This happened last Thursday afternoon (April 16)
So that's what you been up to- wondered where you've been!
Apr 24 @ 6:51PM
i married my first love and i divorced him and never looked back!
Apr 24 @ 6:51PM
I still talk to most of my past lovers and exhusband. Every relationship I had was left as friends. No ill will. Funny how you can be that way afterwards, but can't figure it out when you are together. I am just happy I had chances to love and be loved. None were the right one for me, but I loved regardless. I never talk bad about my ex's because at one point I did love them deeply. Talking bad about one or all now just makes me look bad because I was the one that loved them.
Apr 24 @ 6:56PM
So that's what you been up to- wondered where you've been!
Yep, that's what I have been into with real life for the past week. lol
Apr 24 @ 6:58PM
Had Easter dinner with my first ex-wife and her hubby and their friends with our daughter, her hubby and our grand kids. My ex and me are still friends after all these years.
Apr 24 @ 7:08PM
My X Wife and I are Each others Best Friends...lol...
When she is Down she calls me..and when I am Down...I call her...
Thats the way it was when we were Married...When One was down...the other was Up enough..to pick up the Other!!!!
With Other Relationships...except for those that were long Distance ....We still talk...!!!
Dont forget Man...We all change!!!
Good to see ya!!
and Good Luck!!!
Apr 24 @ 7:17PM
Nope just fuckem & leavem
Seriously there is a couple of them that I'm cool with but there where abouts are unknown
Apr 24 @ 7:19PM
There are a couple that I wish I'd stay in touch with.... and think about them to this day! I'm awful about staying in touch with people sometimes..... I guess I just leave too much of the past behind.... but sometimes, that's best!
Apr 24 @ 7:22PM
There are a few that has contacted once, but never again. I do talk to one ex about once a month. There are a few I'd like to talk to and apologize, but I have no way to reach them.
Apr 24 @ 7:25PM
I have one ex I will NEVER talk to and that is because he is an abuser.....physical, emotional, and an alcoholic.
Other past loves, yeah, I still talk to. Some things are easier to forgive than others.
Apr 24 @ 7:26PM
I stay in contact with a few of my ex's. One is one of my very best friends. They were all good friends before they became anything else and we've remained friends even after the break ups...Sometimes it just takes a little bit of time to get back to that place.
Just keep in mind Shawn, that although reminiscing can bring back a lot of old thoughts and feelings, it can also allow us to think there's still something there that we only imagine cause it feels good at the moment.
Just be careful...
Apr 24 @ 7:34PM
That night when we were on the phone for almost 3 hours we both kinda got worked up talking about our sexual past. I was going to hang up with her and take care of myself, but she didn't want me to hangup. She wanted to actually have phone sex with me. She kinda knew that I had so much phone sex with so many women before by the way I talked and all getting her a little riled up.
Apr 24 @ 7:43PM
Welcome back Straddle
....We all missed ya.
As you stated...Time will tell...One day at a time..One step at a time...
Hope for the best
Good strategy.....
Apr 24 @ 7:58PM
She wanted to actually have phone sex with me
Sounds like two freaks in One Pod!!!! Go for it Man!!!
Apr 24 @ 8:10PM
Sounds like two freaks in One Pod!!!! Go for it Man!!!
We did that night. She came 3 different times before I finally came. Of course she didn't want anyone knowing any of this that are in her every day life, especially Natasha.
Like I'm going to tell my daughter any of this....geez...
Apr 24 @ 9:04PM
Yes, never left anyone on bad terms
Apr 24 @ 9:20PM
I've never managed to keep in touch with my ex's except for one, and thats because we both work in the same building. He's one of the ones I do want to avoid though so it sucks, I will never date anyone from the same building, to heck with the same employer.
Apr 24 @ 10:24PM
" I was contacted by an old love from the 80's when I was younger."
I hope you was younger in the 80's......
I still talk to my first x-wife, but we do have kids together and i still talk to a few x-girlfriends.
Apr 24 @ 10:34PM
" I was contacted by an old love from the 80's when I was younger."
I hope you was younger in the 80's......
Okay, you're right, that didn't sound right....so I went and re-edited it a bit.
Apr 24 @ 10:35PM
bigflirt? you had friends?
Apr 24 @ 11:23PM
Welcome Back Shawn !
If you need soem Ben Gay for the meat, just let me know and I will send you some.....
Apr 24 @ 11:32PM
Welcome Back Shawn !
If you need soem Ben Gay for the meat, just let me know and I will send you some.....
Hey now, that was bad!
lol We're not that old today.
Apr 24 @ 11:41PM
I recently reconnected with my first love and it's been really nice catching up and seeing her with a family now. She was a great girl and we were young and just kind of grew apart back then.
Apr 25 @ 7:51AM
My first boyfriend after me moved to California & is now living with his "male" partner of 20 plus years. I only know that from his sister.
My 2nd i hope is buried 10 feet under.
So no I can't say that I talk to any of my ex's, they became my ex for a reason. I have no wish to reconnect with any of them.
I don't hate the first one, he just realized that he liked men. We parted okay, just never kept in touch.
Apr 27 @ 10:33AM
Unfortunately, I have to stay in contact with my ex-husband because of our kids, but if we hadn't had kids together...I would've been like feather....left and never looked back! Another person I dated for a couple years back in high school, I do still talk to....we are more like brother and sister now
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|Close to the Edge: Upcoming Figge Exhibits Push Boundaries and Confound Expectations
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When the Davenport Museum of Art brought in Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture exhibit in 2003, it was the institution's boldest exhibit to-date. A venue not known for being confrontational showcased Greenfield's high-gloss photographs with their blunt, distressing messages about the status of girls and women in the world.
This fall, the DMA's descendant, the Figge Art Museum, will be getting edgy again, but in an entirely different way. In addition to the current show of landscape photography (on display through October 8) and an upcoming display of African-American quilts (November 18 through February 11), the Figge will have two exhibits that are likely to alternately unsettle, excite, and confound audiences. And even the landscape and quilt shows break some boundaries.
But the stars of the show this fall will be The Architect's Brother (featuring the work of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison) and Adventures in a Temperate Climate (a retrospective of work by Martin Mull). The photographic constructions of the ParkeHarrisons and the paintings of Mull - yes, the actor, comedian, and former Red Roof Inn hawker - are startling, engaging, and enigmatic.
The ParkeHarrisons' work (September 2 through October 29) has the hazy texture of antique photographs but with a post-apocalyptic feel that recalls the expressively outré, aggressively odd cinematic works of Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay.
On the other hand, Mull's work (October 28 through January 21) combines clean-cut imagery from the 1950s in ways that undermine the cultural idealization of the era.
Unlike Greenfield's work, which has the power to anger and upset audiences because of its highly specific portrayal of recognizable reality, the ParkeHarrisons and Mull make the viewer uneasy with ambiguous motives and imagery. They clearly have a point of view, but it's one that's open to interpretation.
Finding Hope in Vague Dread
In the ParkeHarrisons' The Architect's Brother exhibit, the 47 works aren't conventional photographs, but photographed scenes. "It's a great hybrid between photography and theatre," said Figge curator Michelle Robinson. "The works are very seductive. They're large. The surfaces ... you just want to swim in them. ... And they're varnished. They're just absolutely scrumptious."
The resulting artworks are monochromatic and gauzy, like half-remembered dreams in which the images are seared into the memory but the narrative is elusive. The pictures - all of which feature Robert - cluster around repeated motifs: wounds, primitively futuristic technology, scarred landscapes, healing, and transcendence. They are both organic and artificial. Nearly all the works seem particularly interested in the ground beneath their ostensible subjects.
"I think he's asking an open-ended question about how we treat our planet," Robinson said. "I think he wants to pose a series of problems and questions about our relationship to the planet, the history of mankind and what we do to each other, our ideas, our dreams, our hopes ... . He's not giving us an answer."
In both Edison's Light and DaVinci's Wings, the protagonist is strapped into some rickety contraption designed to free him from gravity or the planet. Failure seems certain, but the look of determination on his face in DaVinci's Wings gives pause; in spite of the smoky ruins all around, the character's inventiveness and steadfastness are hopeful.
There's also hope in Mending the Earth, in which the man is literally sewing together the ground, trying to erase a steaming fissure. Yet there's no denying the vague dread that these images cause.
The Architect's Brother certainly seems political, but it's not polemic or didactic. "He's a thoughtful person, and he wants you to be thoughtful," Robinson said.
That ambiguity is evident even in the technique. "It's hard to determine where the light ... is coming from," Robinson said. "All the light is very even. There aren't any shadows."
Robinson conceded that there's a marked contrast between Greenfield's work and the ParkeHarrisons'. "I think Lauren likes to raise questions that raise people's emotion to a fever pitch," she said. "She points out problems that are uncomfortable to talk about. ... This is much more poetic. ... Lauren's much more political. ... As Lauren is hard-edged, Robert and Shana are soft-edged. ... She likes to put in your face a certain problem, and Robert and Shana like to ... come in the back door."
Does Father Know Best?
Mull, of course, is best known as a comic actor in film and television, but he has focused on his painting over the past decade. "He's a really good painter," Robinson said, addressing the first reaction that people naturally have to hearing about an art exhibit by Martin Mull.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Mull uses the Father Knows Best version of the 1950s as his starting points. His paintings are sophisticated and full of loaded images, not at all the sneering and obvious shots one might expect. Adventures in a Temperate Climate features 40 of his works, primarily large oil-on-linen paintings.
"He's kind of peeling back the layers of the onion in an era and in an area ... that was kind of presented as this Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie & Harriet, Father Knows Best world," Robinson said, "where all moms wear dresses and aprons and baked cookies when you got home from school. Dad showed up at 5:30 or 6, and dinner was on the table. Mom stayed home and watched the kids. Maybe the 1950s weren't really like that."
Mull's paintings tend to mine the "the scrubbed-clean look that we all tend to associate with the 1950s," Robinson said.
Sometimes a jarring juxtaposition will undercut that tone, as in The Importance of an Annual Vacation, in which casual preparations for a trip are set against the backdrop of a burning home.
More often, though, Mull's work is subtler. In The Joys of Indoor/Outdoor Living, a man and woman are captured in their sun room. This domestic scene might seem surface-pleasant, except in the way that the subjects appear trapped by glass, prisoners in their own palace. This effect is achieved almost entirely by shadow.
In Parents I, Mull combines unrelated images - Minnie Mouse holding a birthday cake, and a young boy with a shovel, both standing atop the greenish blur of a suburban landscape as if glimpsed from a speeding car - to load the piece up with memories and cultural luggage. One of the interesting components of the work is that the imagery is often so familiar that each observer will bring individual baggage to it. Some might find the painting comforting and whimsical, while others will sense a dark current.
The Jazz of Quilting
The exhibit Accidentally on Purpose: Improvisational African Textiles & African-American Quilts is originating at the Figge and was drawn from the collection of California quilt collector Eli Leon. While it might not inhabit the same daring realm that Mull and the ParkeHarrisons do, it's likely to confound expectations; these aren't the quilts most of us are used to seeing.
"The premise is that there is a kind of aesthetic that many African-American women were taught by their mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and that aesthetic ... was translated and transported by African slaves," Robinson explained. (In addition to the quilts themselves, the exhibits includes examples of African textiles for comparison. The museum will also be creating the catalog for the exhibit, which features 120 works.)
While European quilters learn to follow a pattern - to maintain it -African-American women improvise on themes and motifs. The result in this exhibit is quilts that are vibrant and, in Robinson's word, "gorgeous. ... There's something about these that's almost like jazz." It's easy to get lost in the patterns.
Robinson explained that these are not "show quilts; they're all used, and they look worn. These were all made to be used. In fact, Eli has gotten some of these at garage sales."
That the quilts -primarily made in the second half of the 20th Century - were intended to be functional, that they weren't made for art's sake, and that quilting is a traditional art passed through the oral tradition makes this exhibit more "folk art" than "fine art." And in that way the show is a good match for much of the museum's Haitian collection, as well as newly acquired African art objects.
The exhibit will also be an opportunity for the Figge to explore acquiring more folk art, Robinson said.
What Is Landscape?
The most conventional exhibit in the Figge's fall lineup is the current landscape show Seen Outside: Photographs from the Collection. Yet even it is atypical.
It starts with the name, which sets a broad definition of "landscape" that encompasses the urban and human in addition to the natural and beautiful. "I'm trying to get everybody out of the niche that landscape photography is ... Yosemite Valley," Robinson said. "When you step outside, you're the one that's deciding what's a landscape."
The 35-work exhibit is meant to showcase the museum's photography collection, which is still modest (less than 100 items) but growing, with Robinson having purchased several dozen photographs over the past eight years.
The show started with a handful of photographs by Aernout Overbeeke, who in the 1980s photographed scenes along the Mississippi River. Robinson said Overbeeke has "a Dutch eye for landscape ... really conscious of a flat horizon line, and big sky, and what happens in the sky. ... His entire viewpoint is stretched out [horizontally]. Really long and skinny, like he's emphasizing the lines."
The tent of Seen Outside is large enough to accommodate Greenfield, Ansel Adams, and local photographers such as John Deason. Robinson's juxtapositions are smart, such as putting an Overbeeke that defies expectations of a grain-elevator photograph next to what one might typically expect of a farmscape.
Even the clichés are fresh. David Hockney's Grand Canyon picture is pieced together from dozens of snapshots and unfolds in an irregular shape.
And Peter Brown's Aquifer Lake, Sand Hills, South of Rushville, Nebraska ripples in the breeze with detail and color more painterly and surreal than photographic. It's appropriate that in a strong collection of autumn exhibits, even the landscape show itself borders on the transcendent.
For information on exhibit-related programming at the Figge, see the River Cities' Reader calendar starting on page 11.
The ParkeHarrisons will be participating in a discussion of their work at 7 p.m. on September 28. Programming for the Martin Mull exhibit had not been confirmed at press time.
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In the past two decades the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has increased dramatically and the impact of CDI in healthcare settings is considerable in terms of mortality, morbidity and disease management. The increase in mortality rates, which in some countries are now three times that of MSRA, has been largely attributed to the emergence of strains of C. difficile with increasing antibiotic resistance.
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The ultimate music adventure returns! Join Slightly Stoopid at Closer to the Sun, an all-inclusive beach vacation in Mexico happening this December 15-19. With a stage set up in the sand alongside the breathtaking coastline of the Caribbean Sea, Closer to the Sun combines the music you love with all the amenities of a full-blown luxury vacation. After an incredible inaugural year, we've invited another all-star lineup of artists to join Slightly Stoopid including SOJA, Iration, Pepper, and Ozomatli, along with special guests G. Love, Don Carlos, Karl Denson and Ian Neville.
Conveniently located just a 25 minute drive from the Cancun Airport, we have found the perfect site at Now Sapphire to host our South-of-the-border adventure. Surrounded by beautiful sandy beaches and lush Mayan jungle, our home boasts all the amenities of a luxury resort with an authentic feel, creating the laid back vibe of the event. When not enjoying music on the beach, guests can take advantage of all the resort has to offer including a full service spa, pools around the property, numerous bars and restaurants, recreational water activities, and more.
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friday when i weighed in i was so excited to see 175 on the scale...but it was 175.4. i am .4 lbs from the goal i originally set when i weighed 260 pounds. i had a feeling as i got closer to my goal that i wouldn't be satisfied with ending ther... Read more
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VH1 explores hip-hop and cocaine in new documentary
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — VH1 is exploring the connection between hip-hop and cocaine.
The network will air "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" next month. It explores the development of crack cocaine in the urban community and features rappers Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill's B-Real and Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and Raekwon.
The two-hour special will air Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. Eastern. It was executive produced by rapper-actor Ice-T. He also narrates the documentary.
VH1 made the announcement Tuesday.
"Planet Rock" is the latest documentary by VH1 Rock Doc, which recently earned an Emmy nomination for the special, "Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America."
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I'm addressing this to all photographers, and "would be" photographers.
If you could truly influence the owners of the horses you are asked to photograph, what would you say to them as it regards how the horses are posed and prepared for photo sessions? I know they are paying you, but just how effective are you in trying to influence a truly artful session?
Do you as a photographer, or would-be photographer, prefer that horses not be artificially enhanced via the use of clippers, excessive oil, exaggerated poses, etc?
I'm not a good photographer but I hope to be one day. l consider photography art and it will always reflect the person behind the lens in some way or another. We all see things differently.
What I'm trying to get at with this line of questions is, "Can photographers begin to make a difference in the way horses are presented, posed, and generally photographed?" I look at many of the body shots of American Arabian horses and I am bored to tears most of the time.
A really creative photograph of a beautiful horse should not only make the viewer ooh and aah, but if he/she is looking to breed a mare or make a purchase, it should be alluring enough to make him really want to see the horse in the flesh. How many of those body shots do that for you, huh?
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Two pounds of ice, packed into a hard ball, landed on Les Scott's yard Friday. Scott scooped it up, along with two smaller but still impressive hailstones, and put them in the refrigerator freezer in his old house in the tiny town of Vivian in north-central South Dakota.
Records indicate June 2010 was the hottest June ever recorded on the planet. Here in Mitchell, we've seen massive rainstorms, flooding, intense heat and mighty winds that toppled dozens of trees in town.
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A lawyer affiliated with the congressional campaign of 5th District Republican Sam Caligiuri has filed a complaint with the state Elections Enforcement Commission regarding opponent Mark Greenberg's drive to secure a place on the Aug. 10 primary ballot.
Greenberg, a businessman from Litchfield, did not seek the GOP endorsement at the party's nominating convention last month. Instead, he opted to collect signatures to force his way onto the ballot.
The strategy was deemed successful earlier this week, when Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz determined that Greenberg had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the primary.
But the outcome of the Elections Enforcement Complaint could change that. Attorney Robert D. Russo, on behalf of the Caligiuri campaign, contends that some of those signatures may not valid.
Of the 3,050 signatures submitted by the Greenberg campaign, 976 were collected by Woodbury activist Art McNally.
McNally was also collecting signatures for U.S. Senate candidate Peter Schiff, McNally certified that he circulated a Schiff petition signed by Southbury resident Lee McTaggert, but McTaggert submitted an affidavit saying McNally was, in fact, not the circulator of the petition.
It may seem like an arcane point, but the petitioning process is serious business, one that is highly regulated by state election laws.
Russo says in his complaint that the discrepency "raises serious questions about whether Mr. McNally actually collected all of the signatures" that he claims to have collected for the Greenberg campaign.
McNally, a well-known Tea Party activist and leader of the old Dump Dodd movement, points out Russo's connection to Caligiuri, calling him a "friend of Sam's."


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The problem is two-fold. First, children are more sedentary than they used to be in the good old days when we walked to school nine miles, in snow up to our armpits, uphill both ways.
Second, processed foods with loads of salt, sugar and fat are more available these days. The result? More calories in. Fewer calories out. An epidemic of childhood obesity and diabetes.
Even here in Union County, with an outdoor paradise at their doorstep, kids are spending much of their spare time watching TV, playing video games and messing with smart phones and other electronic devices — in other words, being sedentary. Junk food is easily accessible.
Of course, kids of every generation have a natural sweet tooth. Teaching kids the habit of grabbing healthy snacks and not junk will be a challenge.
But local folks are up to the task. A new program will see that we make progress. The program is made possible by a four-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The recipient? The Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing at EOU on behalf of the Union County Fit Kids Coalition.
The grant will fund a research and education project named Students Now Advocating to Create (Healthy Snacking) Zones — SNACZ. The four-year project will prepare youth to work as community leaders and advocates to promote healthy snacking among their peers and in their schools and food stores.
Currently, there is peer pressure to eat junk. The SNACZ project wants to make it so there is peer pressure to eat healthy foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains, snacks that don't drip with sugar, fat and salt, that don't come out of a package.
Soon, SNACZ 4-H clubs will be formed in the Cove, Elgin, Imbler, North Powder and Union school districts. Fourth- and fifth-graders joining the program this year will comprise the core of the SNACZ 4-H clubs the next four years. The students will lead the way in supporting healthy snacking among peers and their parents. The SNACZ gang will also work for changes in school practices to support healthy snacking, and collaborate with local food store owners to promote healthy snacks in their stores.
The time is right to tackle childhood obesity head on. Here's hoping the SNACZ project is a big success.


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For homeless children, many of the simple joys of childhood can be harder to come by. One non-profit organization in Pueblo seeks to provide these kids an outlet to simply be a kid.
For children living in the Elko Avenue Apartments, an emergency family shelter run by non-profit organization Posada, there is no place to play. Posada says that a wooden play-center has been donated, with volunteers ready to help, but funds are still needed to create the playground landscape. The remaining funds needed are $472.
Posada is seeking people willing to make a donation to support the playground project. Along with the playground, Posada is also looking to add a community garden, sidewalks, new gates and cement for a basketball court on the family shelter grounds. Anyone interested in making a donation is asked to contact Diana Hall, the Posada Business Development Director, at 821-0889, or visit their Web site
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Artscape has a classical music side, too
Although best known for its visual arts and pop/rock/jazz concerts, the annual Artscape extravaganza has its classical side. Here are some free events that should provide a welcome break from the heat and mobs outside.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will give a concert at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Meyerhoff; backstage tours and an "instrumental petting zoo" (sounds spooky to me) are also planned that day.
Local opera organizations have programs, too, all held at Corpus Christi Church (110 W. Lafayette). First up is a tribute to the immortal ...
Maria Callas. This Baltimore Concert Opera presentation will be narrated by Fabrizio Melano, a friend of Callas, with music performed by soprano Francesca Mondanaro and pianist Jim Harp (5:45 Friday).
Opera Vivente offers "I Hear America Singing: A Musical Celebration of the American Spirit," which promises folk, pop and more (2 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday).
And American Opera Theater will present John Dowland's A Pilgrimes Solace from 1612, performed by mezzo Monica Reinagle and guitarist Andrew Dickenson (2 and 5 p.m. Sunday).
Interspersed with the opera will be recitals by local organists (1 and 3:15 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 3:30 p.m. Sunday).


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Markus "Notch" Persson isn't just the acclaimed creator of the phenomenally successful building game, Minecraft.
Minecraft (Mojang)
"Before tax, my dividends from Mojang for 2011 was about three million dollars," he tweeted on Friday. "I chose to distribute that to the other employees."
Persson's company, Mojang, has 25 employees, each of whom is now a lot happier after receiving a nice little gift in the form of about $120,000 from their leader at a recent party.Why? Because he's one of the nicest bosses alive, remember?
The move prompted Carl Manneh, Mojang's Managing Director, to excitedly call it the "best company in the world." (Persson himself agrees.)
So how can Persson afford to give away that kind of dough? Well, for starters, his game is a bonafide smash.
First released in a rough, alpha form in 2009, the game quickly garnered a cult following for its open-ended gameplay and tremendous level of user customization. It didn't get officially released until November of 2011, though by then it has already scooped up dozens of awards and millions of downloads. It's raked in over $100 million in revenue and reportedly has over 20 million users, and the mobile version of the game, Minecraft: Pocket Edition, just crossed the million unit mark this week. A highly-anticipated Xbox Live Arcade version is coming later this year.
Persson also made headlines recently by extending his generous streak to help out another developer, adventure game legend Tim Schafer, by playfully offering to invest in a sequel to his cult-hit Psychonauts. Though talks between the two have cooled a bit, Schafer made headlines himself by reaching out to gamers via a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, which raised a stunning $1 million in 24 hours (it's currently up to $2.4 million).
Gotta say, this stuff warms the old heart container. Hope you're taking notes, other CEOs.
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Two Angry Moms filmmaker Kalafa arms health-conscious parents with the know-how to take back their school cafeterias.
Most readers are already convinced that the highly processed, minimally nutritious goop sitting atop their child's lunch tray must be replaced with real food. But how? The author's well-researched book has the answers. As anyone who has even contemplated taking on the Byzantine institution that is the National School Lunch Program knows, the odds of actually upending the system are slim. The predominance of obsequious clods at the levers of power and the lack of adequate funding make any change seem almost impossible. Junk-food conglomerates have long ago succeeded in casting kids in the role of nascent consumers—and the choices they offer are all bad. Buoyed by extensive case studies that both inform and inspire, Kalafa's how-to guide covers all the bases from networking with local organic farmers to writing successful RFPs (Request for Proposals). Whether the overall goal is simply to bump some greasy fries off the school menu or to have a totally new kitchen installed for from-scratch cooking, no lunchroom revolutionary should be without this battlefield manual. The good news is that, nationwide, parents and other concerned citizens are scoring victories in the battle to bring nutritious, whole food to the school-lunch menu. You can too.
Painstakingly researched and detailed blueprint for building a better school lunchroom today.Copyright Kirkus 2011 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
Kalafa, producer and director of the documentary Two Angry Moms, delves more deeply into the subject of school lunch, offering a step-by-step action plan for parents hoping to make changes in their child's school lunch room. The author explains how the project started, revealing that efforts to provide her daughter with healthy food at home were being "undermined" by unhealthy choices at school (according to the author, the school cafeteria may well be "a microcosm of American fake food culture"). Kalafa serves up some scary statistics, noting the link between childhood junk food and obesity, diabetes, and learning, behavioral, and other health problems, and soberly observing that "our children's life expectancy is now shorter than our own." Kids who buy lunch at school, she notes, don't do as well academically; better food means better grades. With plenty of convincing evidence in hand, she then urges parents to visit their children's lunch rooms, create partnerships with teachers, school staff, and the PTO or PTA, conduct surveys, audit the school food environment, create an updated school wellness policy, and take other steps toward change. Kalafa also provides plenty of positive examples of schools that have gone the extra mile, establishing farm to school and other innovative and nourishing programs. This meaty, practical offshoot of Kalafa's film will help parents turn anger into positive action. (Sept.)[Page ]. Copyright 2010 PWxyz LLC


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Mötley Crüe Guitarist Mick Mars Wants Seth Green to Play Him in "The Dirt" Movie
Brandon Geist | May 26, 2011 | Comments 3 | Tags: Mick Mars, Motley Crue, Revolver Golden Gods, Seth Green
In the new issue of Revolver—which is on newsstands now and available online here—we interview Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars, whose band, Mötley Crüe, took home the inaugural Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Golden Gods show in Los Angeles last month. During the course of our chat, we asked Mars what actor he would like to see play him in the much rumored movie adaptation of Crüe's bestselling 2001 autobiography, The Dirt. His answer surprised us…
"This is gonna sound really strange: I think that Seth Green would probably play me more like me than anyone else. He's not a very tall person, like I am, and he's kind of off-kilter–he's warped a lit bit. [Laughs] I think he's very deadly serious about the stuff he does when he does act, and he's kind of a comedian–I'm kind of a goof-off, too."
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