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led to its delisting
Nasdaq last August.
VaxGen is in the process of restating financial results for 2001, 2002 and 2003. It hasn't filed formal financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission for any quarter in 2004 or 2005 or for full-year 2004. "VaxGen's goal is to file all of its amended outstanding financial statements with the SEC by the end of the third quarter of 2005, although the timing could slip into the fourth quarter," the company said in a prepared statement. VaxGen, which is
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under contract with the U.S. government, said it intends to seek readmission to Nasdaq once the filings have been made.
Shares of the company fell $1.23, or 11.5%, to $9.43. The stock is traded on the pink sheets, a stock quotation system that usually provides a trading forum for thinly traded issues. But by noon, nearly 620,000 shares had been traded, or more than double the average daily trade.
VaxGen, based in Brisbane, Calif., said James M. Cunha, the chief financial officer, had resigned and would be replaced on an acting basis by Kevin C. Lee, VaxGen's senior director of finance. The company didn't comment on Cunha's future plans. Cunha joined VaxGen on April 1, 2004, after having been a management consultant and, previously, having spent 27 years at
Arthur Andersen before departing in 2002.
"We are very aware of the hardship this process has placed on our shareholders and employees, so I want to emphasize that this project is job number one for us and will remain so until it is completed," Lee said in a prepared statement.
VaxGen is restating its financial results to reflect certain contracts with the government. The company said Monday it has made "substantial progress" in this matter, adding that it has commissioned an audit of a Korean subsidiary.
"The change in VaxGen's revenue recognition policy is not associated with any impropriety and is driven solely by the company's desire to ensure that VaxGen uses the most appropriate revenue recognition policy in conformity with [GAAP standards]," the company said.
VaxGen said the restatements won't affect cash balances. The company has $41.2 million in cash, cash equivalents and investment securities. In November, the company signed a contract with the federal government worth $877.5 million over five years to provide the anthrax vaccine.
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Training camp preview: Eastern Conference
By Scott Burnside
As NHL training camps open this week, here are the questions facing the Eastern Conference. Check back Tuesday for our look at the West:
Atlantic Division
New Jersey Devils
For the third straight post-lockout season, critics will be busily predicting the demise of the Devils. And, as the Devils continue to hemorrhage cornerstone players, why not? This summer saw the departure of veteran puck-moving defenseman
Brian Rafalski
and slick center
Scott Gomez
. Yet GM and master of the Devils' domain Lou Lamoriello always finds ways to plug holes -- no matter how gaping. So, into the breach come
Vitaly Vishnevski
Dainius Zubrus
, not to mention highly coveted coach Brent Sutter. But, at some point, the toll of losing players such as Gomez, Rafalski,
Scott Stevens
Scott Niedermayer
since the lockout is going to catch up to the Devils. Well, isn't it?
Dearly departed:
Brian Rafalski, Scott Gomez, Brad Lukowich.
Joyously welcomed:
Dainius Zubrus, Vitaly Vishnevski,
Arron Asham
Kevin Weekes
Karel Rachunek
, Brent Sutter (coach).
Burning questions
• Can fans find their way to the Devils' new home in Newark?
• Will the team's extended road trip (nine games) to start the season find the Devils in an early hole in an Atlantic Division that figures to be more competitive this season?
• How much action will Weekes see in relief of incomparable netminder
Martin Brodeur
, and will those games be enough to keep Brodeur fresh for the playoffs?
• Can defenseman
Paul Martin
, one of the game's more cerebral players, take another step forward in terms of leadership on and off the ice after signing a three-year deal late in the summer?
• Can Sutter make the jump from top-level junior coach to successful NHL bench boss?
New York Rangers
No team made a bigger splash in the free-agent market than the Rangers. And having added twin centers Chris Drury and Scott Gomez, expectations are higher for the Rangers than at any time since their 1994 Stanley Cup win. Drury and Gomez have three Stanley Cup rings between them and give the team terrific depth down the middle. With
Brendan Shanahan
(29 goals in his first season on Broadway) back, the Rangers should boast two dangerous forward lines to complement sterling goaltending from
Henrik Lundqvist
, who was 37-22-8 in his sophomore season in the Rangers nets.
Dearly departed:
Michael Nylander, Matt Cullen, Kevin Weekes,
Jed Ortmeyer
Joyously welcomed:
Scott Gomez, Chris Drury, Andrew Hutchinson.
Burning questions
• So, which of Gomez or Drury gets the job of making magic with Jagr?
• Is this no-name defense strong enough to win a Stanley Cup?
• With Weekes gone, does highly touted goaltending prospect
Al Montoya
get a chance to strut his stuff on the big stage?
Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh has gone from a work in progress to Stanley Cup contender in the blink of an eye. Sometimes, this kind of rapid acceleration of expectation can be difficult for a young team to absorb, but Penguins GM Ray Shero has done an astute job of surrounding his enviable collection of burgeoning stars (
Sidney Crosby
Evgeni Malkin
Jordan Staal
) with a cadre of savvy veterans, including
Gary Roberts
, who came over at the trade deadline and will stick around for at least one more season. Defenseman
Darryl Sydor
, who won Cups in Dallas and Tampa Bay, will be a steadying influence along a blue line that is the team's most obvious weakness.
Dearly departed:
Michel Ouellet, Jocelyn Thibault.
Joyously welcomed:
Darryl Sydor,
Petr Sykora
Dany Sabourin
, Ty Conklin.
Burning questions
• So, what does Crosby, the league's first teenage scoring champion, do in Year 3?
• How does Malkin follow up his rookie-of-the-year campaign?
• Will there be a step back for Staal, who showed a maturity well beyond his 18 years last season?
• Now that veteran backup goalie Thibault has shuffled off to Buffalo, is there enough support in the form of Sabourin or Conklin behind
Marc-Andre Fleury
• How does playing with Stanley Cup expectations change the dynamic in the Penguins' dressing room?
Philadelphia Flyers
Looking for a rags-to-riches story for the coming season? Look no further than the Flyers, who tumbled out of the NHL's penthouse in precipitous fashion a year ago, finishing dead last in the standings. GM Paul Holmgren wasted no time in making things right in Philly, adding top free-agent center Daniel Briere and nabbing
Kimmo Timonen
and forward
Scott Hartnell
from the cash-strapped Predators. Holmgren then swapped enigmatic young Finnish defender
Joni Pitkanen
Joffrey Lupul
Jason Smith
out of Edmonton. In all, the Flyers appear to have built themselves back into a team that should challenge for the Atlantic Division crown and more.
Dearly departed:
Robert Esche
Geoff Sanderson
, Joni Pitkanen.
Joyously welcomed:
Daniel Briere, Kimmo Timonen, Scottie Hartnell, Jason Smith, Joffrey Lupul.
Burning questions
• Can Lupul, who had a disappointing 16-goal campaign last season in Edmonton, harness the talent that saw him score 28 goals two seasons ago in Anaheim?
• Is
Martin Biron
the long-sought answer to the goaltending question in Philadelphia?
• What's next for super prospects
Mike Richards
Jeff Carter
, who have developed more slowly than anticipated?
• The Flyers are huge along the blue line, but is there anyone outside Timonen who can move the puck at an NHL level?
New York Islanders
The Islanders went from the butt of many hockey jokes at training camp a year ago to one of the Cinderella teams of the season. The Isles, left for dead more than a few times in the regular season, snuck into the playoffs on the last day of the regular season -- by shootout, no less. The surge to the playoffs was a testament to the coaching prowess of Ted Nolan and the work ethic displayed by a group of players not normally known for getting their collective noses dirty. Now, Nolan will have a brand-new lineup to work with this season, although the same question marks will exist.
Dearly departed:
Jason Blake,
Alexei Yashin
, Tom Poti,
Sean Hill
Ryan Smyth
, Richard Zednik, Viktor Kozlov.
Joyously welcomed:
Bill Guerin
, Mike Comrie, Ruslan Fedotenko, Andy Sutton, Josef Vasicek, Jon Sim,
Sean Bergenheim
Burning questions
• Does buying former captain Yashin out of his whopper contract qualify as addition through subtraction?
• Do the Islanders get the Bill Guerin who scored 36 times in the regular season or the one who failed to score at all in the playoffs for San Jose?
• Does Sutton become Nolan's next reclamation project on the back end, a la Poti?
• What are the chances Comrie can coax friend Hilary Duff anywhere near Nassau Coliseum?
Northeast Division
Ottawa Senators
The Senators will return basically the same core of players that carried the team to its first Stanley Cup appearance this past June. There will continue to be some questions about scoring balance up front unless GM Bryan Murray can add another experienced scorer, but the defensive corps is as solid as any in the conference. One would expect that John Paddock's ascension from assistant coach to head coach will be a seamless one after Murray moved into the GM's seat. Still, Paddock will have to prove he's still got it as he returns to the head coaching ranks for the first time since 1995, when he was the Winnipeg Jets' bench boss.
Dearly departed:
Mike Comrie
Oleg Saprykin
Tom Preissing
Peter Schaefer
, John Muckler (GM).
Joyously welcomed:
Shean Donovan
Luke Richardson
, John Paddock (coach).
Burning questions
• Can Murray move backup netminder
Martin Gerber
and his bloated $3.7 million salary to open up the possibility of signing another forward like, say,
Peter Forsberg
• Will defenseman
Wade Redden
spend the entire season being the subject of every trade rumor to hit the Internet, or will he sign a long-term deal with the Sens and stave off impending unrestricted free agency?
• Will the Senators lock up potential unrestricted free agent
Dany Heatley
and potential restricted free agent
Jason Spezza
before the end of the regular season?
• How do the Senators avoid the kind of post-Stanley Cup finals hangover that afflicted the
Edmonton Oilers
a year ago?
Buffalo Sabres
The Sabres were the NHL's best regular-season team last season and were hopeful the franchise's first Stanley Cup was in the offing. But the team fell in the Eastern Conference finals for the second straight year, then was rocked this offseason by the departure of co-captains
Chris Drury
Daniel Briere
via free agency. That was followed by the Oilers' presenting emerging offensive star
Thomas Vanek
with a $50 million offer sheet. The Sabres immediately matched the offer, but it was far more, far sooner, than the Sabres had bargained on paying. Still, all is not lost. The management team of GM Darcy Regier and coach Lindy Ruff returns, and those two still have at their disposal a wealth of emerging young talent, from defensemen
Nathan Paetsch
Brian Campbell
to forwards
Drew Stafford
Jason Pominville
Dearly departed:
Chris Drury, Daniel Briere, Dainius Zubrus,
Ty Conklin
Joyously welcomed:
Jocelyn Thibault
Burning questions
• In a dressing room still chock-a-block with talent and potential, who steps forward to assume the leadership void created by the departure of Drury and Briere?
• How will Vanek bear up under the pressure that will accompany his new lofty contract?
• Was Maxim Afinogenov's 61 points in 56 games and plus-19 showing a mirage?
Will the Sabres really do everything in their power to make the Oilers pay for their dastardly attempt to steal Vanek from the Buffalo fold?
Toronto Maple Leafs
The one constant about the Maple Leafs is the constant electricity of chaos that permeates the organization from the top on down. The Leafs' rebuilding strategy apparently has gone out the window, as GM John Ferguson sacrificed three draft picks -- including the 13th overall selection in this past June's draft -- to bring in a goaltender (
Vesa Toskala
) who may or may not be starter material. There's been the simmering issue of whether the Leafs will hire a senior "consultant" to either help Ferguson or plot his dismissal (depending on which side of the conspiracy you stand). Then, in mid-August, there was the news that forward
Mark Bell
, who came in the Toskala trade, would be going to jail for six months at the end of the season. Just a typical offseason in Toronto, where the team has missed the playoffs two seasons in a row and hasn't won a Cup since 1967.
Dearly departed:
Jeff O'Neill,
Michael Peca
Yanic Perreault
, J.S. Aubin,
Travis Green
Joyously welcomed:
Jason Blake
, Vesa Toskala, Mark Bell.
Burning questions
• How does Bell perform in the center of the hockey universe knowing he's headed for a six-month prison term at the end of the season?
• Is Toskala a starter-in-waiting a la Finnish countryman
Miikka Kiprusoff
, or is he a backup ill-equipped to deal with the pressure of having to deliver in Toronto?
• Will Jason Blake become the winger
Mats Sundin
never had, or will he add much-needed offensive balance by playing with
Kyle Wellwood
• Speaking of the gifted soon-to-be center, can Wellwood bounce back from hernia surgery and reproduce the magic that made him one of the most entertaining young players in the game?
Montreal Canadiens
There has been a lot of deck-chair shuffling going on over on the good ship Canadiens this summer. Although the Habs appeared to be in the hunt for some of the top-end offensive talent on the free-agent market, none of that talent landed in Montreal. GM Bob Gainey did manage to unload underachieving malcontent
Sergei Samsonov
, a move that should earn some sort of medal. He also brought in veteran defenseman
Roman Hamrlik
to fill some of the void left by the departure of offensively gifted/defensively challenged
Sheldon Souray
. But, in all, the Habs seem no better off than they were a season ago, when they couldn't win when they had to, keeping them out of the playoffs.
Dearly departed:
Sheldon Souray, Sergei Samsonov,
Mike Johnson
David Aebischer
Radek Bonk
Janne Niinimaa
Alexander Perezhogin
Joyously welcomed:
Bryan Smolinski
, Roman Hamrlik,
Tom Kostopoulos
Patrice Brisebois
Burning questions
• What new off-ice distractions will talented, enigmatic
Alexei Kovalev
conjure up to torment Gainey and coach Guy Carbonneau?
• Will netminding phenom
Carey Price
make his presence felt with the big club?
• Where will the offense come from on a team on which only one forward, captain
Saku Koivu
, had more than 60 points last season?
• How long until fans in Montreal start the cascade of verbal abuse that first drove defenseman Brisebois from the city?
Boston Bruins
For the second post-lockout season in a row, the Bruins thought they had the right recipe for regular-season success, and, for as many seasons in a row, they saw that recipe turn sour very quickly. Under new GM Peter Chiarelli, the Bruins couldn't find any kind of rhythm under coach Dave Lewis, who was canned shortly after being told he would return to the job. Oh well, things change. In Lewis' place is former Devils and Canadiens bench boss Claude Julien, who was himself unceremoniously dumped by Devils GM Lou Lamoriello with three games left in the regular season. Julien should bring some structure that never seemed to be there under Lewis. Chiarelli hopes he has solved his goaltending problems by acquiring
Manny Fernandez
, but the team's problems extend far beyond goaltending. It's a long uphill climb for the Bruins.
Dearly departed:
Hannu Toivonen
, Shean Donovan, Dave Lewis (coach).
Joyously welcomed:
Manny Fernandez,
Shawn Thornton
, Carl Soderberg, Peter Schaefer, Claude Julien (coach).
Burning questions
• Is there anything in the Bruins' dressing room that remotely approaches chemistry?
• Is Fernandez a misunderstood star in waiting or a fragile netminder primed to spontaneously combust on a team that figures to struggle to stay in the hunt for a playoff berth?
• Will defenseman
Zdeno Chara
and forward
Marc Savard
have more impact on the ice and in the dressing room in Year 2 of their tenure in Boston?
• Where will the scoring depth come from on a team that saw a 51-point gap between the team's top scorer (Savard, 96 points) and its third-leading scorer (
Glen Murray
, 45 points)?
Southeast Division
Atlanta Thrashers
The defending Southeast Division champs let down Southeast fans as they let the division's string of Cup wins end at two. Worse, in their first playoff appearance, the Thrashers laid down to the Rangers in a four-game first-round sweep. Now, the team, which is in the midst of an ugly ownership dispute, faces more questions than it did a season ago, including the mental toughness of goaltending phenom
Kari Lehtonen
and the leadership qualities of
Marian Hossa
, who could become an unrestricted free agent next summer. Another division crown could still be in the offing in one of the league's most passive divisions, but the Thrash just as easily could be looking at an early tee time next spring, a possibility that would be devastating to the still-emerging franchise.
Dearly departed:
Keith Tkachuk
Andy Sutton
Scott Mellanby
Jon Sim
Eric Belanger
Greg de Vries
Shane Hnidy
J.P. Vigier
Joyously welcomed:
Ken Klee
Todd White
Karel Pilar
Eric Perrin
Burning questions
• How will goaltending uberprospect Lehtonen respond after flaming out in his first NHL playoff exposure?
• Can GM Don Waddell get Hossa under contract, or will the talented Slovak become the biggest trade bauble before the 2008 trade deadline?
• Is diminutive AHL star
Brett Sterling
(97 points as an AHL rookie) NHL material?
• What's next for star forward
Ilya Kovalchuk
, who slumped from 98 points two years ago to 76 last season?
Tampa Bay Lightning:
The Lightning are in a bit of a rut after their seminal Stanley Cup win in 2004. They squeaked into the playoffs the past two seasons but have been unable to survive the first round. A big part of that failure has been inconsistent goaltending, but cap restraints and the team's internal budget have made it difficult for GM Jay Feaster to upgrade seriously at the position. A new ownership group that includes former Columbus GM Doug MacLean suggests it's willing to spend to get the Bolts back on the Cup track. Time will tell. As for roster moves, everything old is new again as former Lightning players
Chris Gratton
Brad Lukowich
were reacquired in the offseason.
Dearly departed:
Ruslan Fedotenko
, Eric Perrin,
Cory Sarich
Nolan Pratt
Joyously welcomed:
Chris Gratton, Brad Lukowich,
Michel Ouellet
Jan Hlavac
, Doug MacLean (new owner).
Burning questions
• Can coach John Tortorella get all four of his superstars --
Vincent Lecavalier
Martin St. Louis
Brad Richards
Dan Boyle
-- firing on all cylinders as they did during the team's Cup run in 2004?
• Speaking of Boyle, can Feaster lock him up before the slick puck-moving defenseman becomes the most sought-after defenseman on the free-agent market next summer?
• How does the goaltending triangle of
Johan Holmqvist
Karri Ramo
Marc Denis
resolve itself, given that Tortorella essentially threw Denis under the Bolts' bus before the playoffs?
• When does MacLean make his first appearance in the Lightning dressing room to blast his players for a subpar effort, as he regularly did in Columbus?
Carolina Hurricanes
OK, so there is a Stanley Cup hangover after all. A few scant months after winning the first post-lockout Stanley Cup, the Hurricanes dropped off the playoff map completely. They didn't miss by much (four points), so the Canes won't have far to go to get back in the postseason, especially in the weirdly mediocre Southeast Division. GM Jim Rutherford had a quiet offseason, but he did return popular forward
Matt Cullen
, who should help the Hurricanes' power play. Rutherford is hoping
Eric Staal
Cam Ward
, both of whom struggled at times last season, will resume their star arc. Having
Cory Stillman
around for the whole season and a healthy
Erik Cole
also will prove a boon. The defense isn't getting any younger, but it's still solid.
Dearly departed:
David Tanabe
Andrew Hutchinson
Josef Vasicek
Joyously welcomed:
Matt Cullen (again),
Jeff Hamilton
Michael Leighton
Burning questions
• Can Staal get back to the 100-point plateau after seeing his production drop by 30 points last season?
• Will Stillman, a Cup-winning machine, return to form after shoulder surgery limited him to 43 games and 27 points in 2006-07?
• Is Ward, the playoff MVP of the 2006 playoffs, ready to take another step forward in his development?
• What do they really put in the BBQ sauce in the Hurricanes' pregame press meal?
Washington Capitals
After wandering around the NHL wilderness for the past couple of years, the Capitals appear ready to come in from the cold. With top prospect
Nicklas Backstrom
set to join rising young stars
Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Semin
, the Caps' youth movement is in full swing. But this offseason, GM George McPhee added some solid veteran talent to help those youngsters move forward in their evolution.
Viktor Kozlov
Tom Poti
Michael Nylander
will be asked to shoulder a significant load as the Caps hope to bounce back into the playoff picture for the first time since 2003.
Dearly departed:
Kris Beech
Bryan Muir
Jiri Novotny
Joyously welcomed:
Tom Poti, Viktor Kozlov, Michael Nylander.
Burning questions
• Just how good can Backstrom, the fourth overall pick in 2006, be?
• Can Nylander, who was seen as crucial to Jaromir Jagr's success in New York the past two seasons, work his magic with Ovechkin and/or Semin?
• Can coach Glen Hanlon get the same production out of enigmatic Kozlov (a career-best 25 goals) that Ted Nolan pried out of the big Russian on Long Island?
• How the heck did captain
Chris Clark
manage to score 30 goals, and can he do it again after signing a long-term deal?
• If the Caps are in the playoff hunt, can
Brent Johnson
provide the necessary relief to ageless Caps goalie
Olaf Kolzig
Florida Panthers
Every preseason, hockey experts look at the Panthers' roster and go, "Hmm, maybe this is the year." This preseason is no different. There are enough interesting baubles in South Florida to warrant such pondering -- emerging
Nathan Horton
, emerging
Jay Bouwmeester
, often peerless
Tomas Vokoun
, fiery
Olli Jokinen
-- and to make the eyebrows arch quizzically. But the Panthers are past masters of the tease, annually following up promise and hope with the uneven and inconsistent. Credit GM and coach Jacques Martin for locking up youngsters Horton,
Stephen Weiss
Bryan Allen
to long-term deals this summer; but he'd better get his team into the postseason or he won't need to worry about handling both coaching and GM duties.
Dearly departed:
Ed Belfour
Alex Auld
Martin Gelinas
Joyously welcomed:
Tomas Vokoun,
Radek Dvorak
Richard Zednik
Brett McLean
Burning questions
• Can Vokoun return to the form that saw him go 63-30-11 for Nashville since the lockout, or will the thumb injury that hampered him down the stretch last season continue to be a problem?
• What's next for Horton, the third overall pick in 2003 who has 59 goals the past two seasons?
• Is this the season injury-prone Weiss breaks through?
• Can Martin continue to balance coaching and GM duties?
• Will the Panthers continue to make a mockery of attendance figures by giving tickets away to anyone who comes within a 20-mile radius of their rink?
• Who's going to provide entertainment at team outings now that Belfour has shuffled off to Sweden?
Scott Burnside is the NHL writer for ESPN.com.


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ART/ARCHITECTURE; Industry And Art: A Long Embrace
Published: April 22, 2001
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Smith's list goes on and on, suggesting by its very copiousness that the aesthetic impulse is so vital an element of the human constitution that it prompts, and pre-empts, a good deal of our ingenuity. Of course, throughout history artists have borrowed from utilitarian technologies when something came along that served their purposes. This slowed down for awhile in the 19th century, when distrust of the dark satanic mills made artists reluctant to have anything to do with them. Then, in the early 20th century, calls went out to celebrate the machine age.
By then, life was already beginning to be saturated with fast-changing technologies: telegraphy, rapid printing, photography, electricity, railroads, cars, telephones and soon radios, airplanes and television altered existence even in underdeveloped countries. Artists quickly started helping themselves to industrial products and processes. They never stopped.
But this time art and artists were no longer leading the way for technology and science but were almost exclusively on the receiving rather than the giving end. Naum Gabo used plastics, which had been reserved for valve parts and billiard balls, in sculpture. Julio Gonzalez borrowed iron and David Smith borrowed steel from architects and engineers. Morris Louis used acrylics, developed by the auto industry.
Dan Flavin adapted neon from outdoor advertising; Bruce Nauman lifted holography from scientists; Jenny Holzer made art from light-emitting diodes, generally used in numeric displays and running news announcements -- and so on, up to digitization and the science-driven information industries. Artists have even, in a fortuitous stroke that is surely not entirely coincidental, borrowed a philosophical stance from science, which proposed the principles of uncertainty, possibility and ambiguity long before the postmodernist philosophers did.
There are some exceptions to this one-way current. A few recent technologies have borrowed from art as earlier ones did. Once computer visualization became possible in the 1960's, artists were largely responsible for preparing the way for virtual reality. Chip manufacturers have adapted graphic printmaking techniques for imprinting circuits on microchips. And although science fiction writers like Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov neither invented the technologies nor produced prototypes, they foretold many of the breakthroughs technology came up with in the latter half of the 20th century.
Hoping to detect such foresight at an early stage, a few technology companies and laboratories, including the Interval Research Corporation and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, have recently financed artists in residence, gambling on the unfettered powers of aesthetic imagination. Still, the great discoveries and inventions of engineers, mechanics, laboratories and industrial research over the last century or so -- from automobiles to airplanes to nuclear fission, from penicillin to robots to transistors, computers, molecular biology and M.R.I.'s -- had little or nothing to do with aesthetic intentions.
Perhaps by the time technology stopped depending on art to prepare its way, the utilitarian principles of the industrial revolution had so permeated society that aesthetics fell into second place. Perhaps mass culture and the profit motive have not only set other goals but made the costs so high it is scarcely worthwhile to put highly specialized minds to work on mere appurtenances of pleasure. (Although the big entertainment companies have done so: Disney, for instance, has hired two of the leading American authorities on artificial intelligence to help enhance the illusions in its theme parks.) It is even conceivable that basic aesthetic needs have been met and that whatever comes next is luxury, or frivolity.
Or perhaps by about 1900 the two cultures had already grown so far apart that they could no longer communicate as they once did. Back in the Renaissance, artists thought it necessary to master Euclid and other schools of scientific thought. In the early 19th century in England, the word ''artist'' still generally meant the same as ''artisan,'' and since ''science'' meant any body of knowledge, the word ''scientist'' as we know it was only beginning to come into use. What we now think of as scientists and artists interacted in a single culture and spoke each other's language. Not many artists today can speak the languages of molecular biology or quantum physics, nor is it likely that many scientists or engineers can talk fluently of conceptual art or Neo-Geo.
But even artists can do a little tech talk. If technology began to exert a wide influence on life and art only near the beginning of the 20th century, by the end of that century it had become the very fabric of life for millions, artists included. The invention curve in technology has been exceptionally steep, and the acceptance curve for it has followed suit. People latch on to new technologies not just faster but more eagerly than ever before. Today's technologies are simply facts of life; people complain about them as they do about other unavoidable aspects of existence, like the weather.
Artists are playing around with the gadgets and processes just like the rest of us, because they make some things easier and do new tricks -- and because we have all inherited from the second half of the 19th century a need to feel that we are modern. That feeling, that up-to dateness, still bestows some sense of significance, scarce enough in our time.
Maybe, now that there doesn't seem to be an avant-garde in art any more, the avant-garde has been relocated to the realm of engineers, information scientists, molecular biologists and astronomers. Maybe artists are borrowing their toys in the hope, which they share with the rest of us, of wresting meaning and some kind of order from the arcane chaos of technological life.
Photos: Jenny Holzer appropriated the scoreboard at Candlestick Park for one of the works in her ''Truisms 1977-1979'' series. (Regional Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia)(pg. 1); ''Untitled (To Barry, Mike, Chuck and Leonard),'' 1975, by Dan Flavin. (Associated Press); Science in the service of beauty: a 16th-century stained-glass panel. (British Museum, London); Digital impulses: Carl Fudge's ''Rhapsody Spray 1'' in ''BitStreams.'' (Whitney Museum of American Art); The metallurgical muse: David Smith's sculpture ''Volton XVIII.'' (Associated Press)(pg. 38)


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Crash.Net WTCC News
Munnich set for Monza test
25 February 2013
Munnich Motorsport heads off to Monza this week for another pre-season test.
The test is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday and all three drivers, Marc Basseng, Markus Winkelhock and team owner, Rene Munnich are expected to be in action.
The outfit, which has spent recent seasons competing in the now defunct FIA GT1 World Championship, will field three SEAT Leon cars in the WTCC this year.
"The trucks are leaving the workshop to Monza today, where the next WTCC pre-season tests are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday this week," read a statement on the outfit's official Facebook page.
Munnich Motorsport has been extensively testing since early January as they look to be competitive in their debut WTCC season, having run at Portimao and in the Algarve as well as competing in the Dubai 24 hours. Conditions are forecast to be cloudy and cold this week at Monza.
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my little jacob passed away yesterday
Oh gosh my heart goes out to you, I am so sorry for your loss.
Yesenia, that is a beautiful poem, brings tears to my eyes.
SAHM Preemie Faternal Twin Girls who LOVE blueberries, dancing & wrestling
26 wkers�Ava 1lb 9 oz & Alyssa- 2 lbs RAD, BPD & ASD�
I am sorry for the loss of your precious Jacob. Was he already home or still in the NICU? I can't even begin to imagine the pain you are going thru but please know that we are all here for you. Hugs and prayers for you and your family.
Yesenia that was the most beautiful poem I had ever read.
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Cute! nice work!
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It connect me to Luffy
It connect me to Luffy
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Oh I so want that to be my lunch. That would just make me smile all day long! It's incredibly inventive, you've done some really simple things that make a massive difference to the bento. X
A three teir, mine are Two teir
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A three teir, mine are Two teir
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Don Keeps Falling
What does the dark Mad Men premiere portend for Season 6?
Slate's Mad Men TV Club writers Hanna Rosin and Seth Stevenson were on Facebook on Monday to chat with readers about the season six premiere. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Seth Stevenson: What did everyone think of the premiere last night?
Patrick McGough: I just found the whole thing underwhelming and hard to connect to. I liked Seth's take on it in his Slate review, but it all left me cold.
Donna Lyman Semar: Thought it was quite boring. Very disappointed.
Michael Leone: I thought it was strained. Don is becoming dull. Enough with his brooding! The Betty sequence I thought completely unbelievable, and moreover, I don't give a crap about her. Even the office scenes felt tired and played out. Roger's sequence was the most interesting and amusing. I was missing Joan.
Hanna Rosin: Wow, am surprised at the negativity. Was it Don's mute moping that turned everyone off? Roger on the couch?
Jill Elswick: Roger on the couch was the best part! That speech about doors. Death was at every turn in this episode, and the male leads seemed to have lost their way (Don wrote a dud ad that turned out to really be about death!). On the other hand, Peggy and Megan—and even Betty—seemed purposeful. Roger's tears at being confronted with the death of the shoeshine man was a key development, and it contrasted well with his lack of feeling about his mother's passing.
Hanna Rosin: Jill—you just pre-empted my Slate entry. I totally agree, the women were doing something, while the men were spinning in circles. Roger can talk—I can luxuriate in Roger talk all day. Woe to the psychiatrist who falls asleep with Roger on the couch. But it's just talk. Whereas Betty at least ventures out, talks dirty, walks down the path with a modicum of curiosity.
John Swansburg: I gotta say, I found last night's episode pretty slack. I read that AMC pressured Weiner to open the season with a two-hour episode, and this felt padded out to me. I did love when Ken Cosgrove dressed down that sycophant, though it portended bad things to come for someone.
Seth Stevenson: Ever-amiable Cosgrove took on a much harsher edge last night. Ken's always been a bit of a fringe character, if beloved by the literary-minded New Englanders among us. Maybe bigger things are in store for him this season?
Hanna Rosin: Yes, why were they all so harsh to that poor fan boy on the couch? And personally, I like having Ken's clueless amiability as a counterpoint to all the scheming.
Steve Robertson: Pete is a full partner. Ken is a senior accounts exec. There's a new generation of juniors coming in. Juniors with the same mix of ambition and incompetence that Pete once had. Only now they look at Pete with the same type of awe and jealousy that Pete held for Don.
Seth Stevenson: Perhaps Ken is attempting to nip Pete's burgeoning fan club in the bud.
Seth Stevenson: Maybe it's me but I found the premiere riveting. This isn't a show like Breaking Bad or the Sopranos, where it's a breeze to chuck in some violence to goose the action whenever things are flagging. I thought there was plenty of emotional drama. Roger dealt with his mother's death, we learn that Don is cheating on Megan, Peggy is becoming a creative rock star. ... Stuff happened!
Byron Boneparth: I think the parts you mention were riveting or at least very interesting. But the whole Betty/Sandy plotline was sort of dull and seemed a bit pointless, and that was a good chunk of the episode. I would have liked more Pete and/or Joan and less of the comparatively less compelling Francises.
Seth Stevenson: I am always in favor of more Joan. And yes, in general, my energy level seems to drop a bit whenever we cut to the Francis abode.
Daniel Noa: Mad Men is about a man falling. It's a continuous fall. Not two steps forward one step back. And Don's addiction (womanizing—seduction more than sex) is not Betty's fault or Megan's fault, which is the whole point. It's his fault and he cannot exorcise his demons without drastic action (we'll see if the show can even go there). More likely, he will be emblematic of a culture and generation that destroyed itself in pursuit of, as Don calls it, "the moment before you need more happiness."
Hanna Rosin: Matt Zoller Seitz's recap in Vulture ends on a great question: Are these fundamental human flaws or flaws of the age. Is this something the late '60s did to us, or is this the nature of humanity? That seems to be a question overhanging this season, because Don is unchanging and seems unaffected by the times. He would be cheating on his wife if it were 1932. And in some ways, the "age" is setting them up to be better men, to open up and understand themselves better, even if it will take a few decades to get there.


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And more highlights from today's conference call.
Former "X Factor" contestant gets essentially what she auditioned for, with one major perk/not-a-perk.
It'd be winners on winners on winners!
With three open slots on the show now, nobody's name would surprise us at this point.
Darn you, Simon Cowell, breaking out the realistic criticism for THIS.
Why Simon Cowell needs to up the Mean Factor to save his latest show.
As well as host Steve Jones. Sorry, mate! You've been Dunklemaned.
And all by L.A. Reid. Huh.
Rumor has it "The Voice" might have a MC competing, but that's about all.
Former contestants commiserate over break-ups and reality television losses in "Want U Back."
And L.A. Reid will oversee her career. Not Simon. This probably means more to "X Factor" watchers.
But that $5 million is still yours, Ms. Amaro.
Surprise surprise surprise!
Stop making all those robot jokes, because Steve Jones has DENIED THEM ALL. (Also all those host rumors, with maybe a little less all-caps.)


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Tylana and Steve are in the training room working on some of their combat skills.
Steve: It snowed again last night.
Tylana: I really love the snow. It reminds me of the times it would snow on Asgard.
Steve: Does it? What kind of winter stuff did you do there?
Tylana: The same stuff that we've done here, except we used to ice skate on Asgard.
Steve: Ice skate, we do that here.
Tylana walks down the stairs in her Midgardian winter wear. She meets with all of the other Avengers as they begin to head out towards their cars.
Tylana: Wait
can we bring Loki?
Tony: You're kidding right?
Tylana: It just won't be the same without him. I haven't gone skating without him once.
Everybody looks at Thor.
Thor: I feel that it may be alright. Loki will be in our sight of view and will therefore not cause any harm.
Everybody, including Loki, arrives at Rockefeller Centre and puts their skates on. They all head out onto the ice and separate into groups. Clint and Natasha went in one direction while Tony, Steve, and Bruce are in another direction. Thor, Loki, and Tylana are together and slowly begin to skate in the same direction as the S.H.I.E.L.D agents.
Tony: You know this is actually kind of fun.
Bruce: You know who might enjoy this? Pepper may like it.
Tony: You know you're right.
Tony skates off of the rink and calls Pepper.
Bruce: I always enjoyed skating.
Steve: Me too.
Bruce: I skated with this friend of mine Betty once
that was before all of this happened.
Steve: I haven't really gone skating with anyone other than my friend Bucky. I miss that guy.
Natasha: It's nice to be able to get out and do stuff like this as a group.
Clint: Ya, I've always liked doing this kind of stuff. We should do this more often.
Natasha: We should, I mean sure we may not be able to get everyone together like this but, hey it'll be worth it right?
Clint: Ya, look how much fun everyone is having. Look Pepper even showed up.
Natasha: See, now this is what I'm talking about.
Thor skates away from Loki and Tylana and towards Bruce and Steve.
Thor: You are well trained skaters.
Steve: You know, you're not so bad yourself there Thor. Actually, maybe I'm better than you.
Thor: Ha, you are no match for my abilities.
Bruce: Hey guys don't start.
Steve: Afraid of a little skating challenge Bruce?
Bruce: No, I'm more afraid of the outcome of all of this.
Thor: Let's race and see who the better skater is.
Steve: You're on goldilocks. Are you in Bruce?
Bruce: What the heck, why not.
They all skate to the entrance as Pepper and Tony meet up with them.
Natasha: You know, I never realized how much of a couple activity skating is.
Clint: What do you mean?
Natasha: Well look, there's Stark and Pepper, I see Dr. Pym and Janet just got here, and look over there, even Loki and Tylana are skating together, and just look at us. You and I are skating together.
Clint: Ya
we're skating together
Just you and I
the two of us skating together
well what about those three over there, Steve, Thor, and Bruce.
Natasha: Let's fix that, add more people to this. I'll call up Jane Foster while you call Dr. Ross.
Clint: Well what about Steve?
Natasha: Call, Maria
Heck why not add Fury in on this and Dr. Selvig too. Let's just contact everyone.
Just before Steve, Thor, and Bruce are about to start the race everyone that Clint and Natasha called arrives. They all gather to where the guys are.
Clint: Hey what are you three up to?
Steve: Racing, want in.
Clint: Hell ya.
Tony: Count me in on this. I bet I can beat all of you.
Pepper: Watch your head Tony it's getting a little big again.
Loki: What are you doing?
Thor: Racing to prove who the master skater is.
Loki: A race, I see
clearly none of you realize who the real master of skating is. After all my origin is as a frost Giant, I suppose you don't realize that I am in fact the master skater here.
Nick: Let's find out, because I want to prove you all wrong that I am the most skilled one here.
Erik: What the hell
let me try too.
Darcy: Now this is going to be interesting.
Darcy pulls out a phone and starts filming. All of the guys line up as the girls are standing at the side.
Pepper: On my go...On your mark
.get set
They all start skating with Clint, Nick, Thor, Steve, and Loki leading at the front. Erik falls to the ground when he starts and is helped up by Jane.
Erik: I did say try right?
Nick falls behind Clint as he is skating next to Steve. Thor and Loki are slightly ahead of them. Eventually, Steve pulls ahead of Clint and pushes past Thor and Loki. Both Thor and Loki speed up and catch up with Steve. Tony and Bruce stop racing realizing that they aren't going to catch up with the guys at the front and head back to the girls and Erik. The race has come down to Thor, Steve, and Loki. Thor pulls out in front of them. He turns back to give them a smile and doesn't see what is in front of him. He crashes into the rink wall and flips over it to the other side. The race is now down between Steve and Loki. Just as they were coming back to the start Loki pulls ahead of Steve and cuts in front of him making Steve lose is balance. Loki turns around and stops as he wins the race giving Steve a grin.
Loki: What did I tell you soldier. No one can beat me when it comes to skating.
Steve gets up and glares at Loki. Tylana skates over to Loki and hugs him as Thor returns with Clint and Nick. Clint skates over to Natasha.
Natasha: You tried and that's all that matters.
Clint: You're right.
Natasha: See
Everybody skates away from Natasha and Clint.
Clint: No I mean about the couple thing. Tony has Pepper, Bruce has Betty, Thor and Jane, Steve is with Maria, Erik is with Darcy and Fury, Loki and Tanya are even together. And not to mention you and I are together skating.
Natasha: Ya
you and I are skating together aren't we.
Erik, Darcy, and Nick are skating past Natasha and Clint as Darcy bumps into Natasha's back pushing Natasha closer to Clint as he grabs her to catch her.
Natasha: Hey watch it! Be more careful!
Darcy: You're welcome!
Darcy, Erik, and Fury skate away.
Nick: Nicely done Miss Lewis.
Darcy: Hey somebody had to do it. I mean come on, look at them; you can totally tell they want each other. They may be agents but they suck at hiding something like that to the point where it's so obvious. They needed the little boost.
Erik: I don't think they're the only ones. Look over there.
Erik gestures over to Tylana and Loki.
Darcy: Here we go again.
Darcy skates faster towards them.
Nick: No Darcy
not them.
Erik: Darcy, get back over here!
Darcy skates close to Tylana and gently bumps into her as she skates away. Tylana slides right into Loki as Nick and Erik catch up to Darcy.
Nick: Do you not realize who you're messing with?
Darcy: What it was just a harmless push, what the hell could happen?
Erik: That is Thor's brother Loki
don't you remember what he did.
Darcy: WAIT, THAT'S HIM! Shit, why the hell didn't you stop me?
Erik: We kept telling you not to.
Darcy: You should know by now that I don't listen to you!
Nick: Actually, I don't think you should concern yourself too much.
Darcy: What, why?
Nick nods his head over to Tylana and Loki. Erik and Darcy turn to see Tylana and Loki linking arms as they skate.
Darcy: Can I make couples or what.
Erik: Impressive, you've even managed to get the agents.
Darcy: Shut up, no way I didn't.
Erik points at Clint and Natasha as they are holding hands while they skate and laugh together.
Darcy: Damn I'm good. Alright, who is next?
Meanwhile, Tylana and Loki are skating around talking.
Tylana: Just like home right?
Loki: Almost. But you skating with me is the most important part.
Tylana: Glad you think so.
Loki: Well don't you agree?
Tylana: Of course I do. If I don't say so, then I'm afraid you'd let me go and I'd wind up skating with someone like Thor.
Clint and Natasha skate by Tylana and Loki.
Natasha: See, isn't this nice, you and I skating together.
Clint: Ya, I can't believe we are actually skating together holding hands though.
Natasha: Ya, I'd have to say that has come to me as a surprise, but I don't want to risk getting hit by Darcy again and losing my balance.
Clint: Oh of course, wouldn't want you falling into me like that again now wouldn't we.
Natasha: Oh of course not. That wouldn't be a very good thing at all.
Darcy skates by them.
Darcy: Just kiss her already would you!
Clint's face turns red as Natasha lets go of his hand.
Natasha: I'm
going to go see what Steve and Maria are talking about.
Clint: And I'm going to go Tanya and Loki apart, their getting a little too cozy with each other, I don't like it.
Natasha: Right uh
talk to you later.
Clint and Natasha separate as Darcy returns to Nick and Erik.
Darcy: Damn I really thought that would work.
Nick: Nice try Darcy, but with people like them you can't be so forward about it.
Darcy: Oh
I'll get them next time.
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Hospital staff react to Royal visit
Prince Charles visited his local hospital in Tetbury today to officially open a new X Ray Unit.
He's been a frequent visitor in the past and staff seemed very excited to welcome him back. We caught up with a few:
Prince Charles meets patients and staff at Tetbury Hospital
Prince Charles visited his local hospital in Tetbury today to officially open a new X-Ray Unit. The Prince met with patients and volunteers on a tour of the hospital which is close to his family home at Highgrove.
Prince Charles will open X-Ray unit at Tetbury Hospital
The Prince of Wales will visit Tetbury Hospital and will open the newly upgraded X-ray unit later today.
It's the first unit upgrade in over a decade and more than £100,000 has been spent improving the facilities.
Prince Charles is a patron of The Friends of Tetbury Hospital and it is his local hospital.
Paloma Faith announces Gloucestershire forest gig
Paloma Faith has announced she will play a gig in Gloucestershire as part of a summer Forest Live tour.
The singer/songwriter will perform at Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury on Friday June 19 as part of the Forestry Commission's outdoor concert series.
Forest Live is an independent programme organised by the Forestry Commission to bring forests to new audiences.
Tickets go on sale from 9.00am on Friday 23 January.
Tree planted in Tetbury for the Royal Wedding is stolen
It has emerged that a tree planted to commemorate the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been uprooted and stolen from Tetbury churchyard.
The theft took place from St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalen, Church Street, sometime between 21 and 28 November.
The offenders pulled out the six feet high 'wedding cake' tree ('Cornus Controversa Variegata'), which had been planted in 2011 by The Duchess of Cornwall in honour of the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
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The Duchess also bought a cream jug with a Union Jack on the side and a grey and red union jack-patterned dog neckerchief.
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The Duchess was also treated to a short Christmas carol performance in the chapel by the chamber choir from St Mary's School in Calne.
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall to visit flood victims
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will be in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The Duchess will visit flood victims in Malmesbury before the royal couple move on to Tetbury, where they'll switch on the town's Christmas lights.
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For those interested, Rutgers Newark is hosting a conference tomorrow at 15 Washington on historic preservation and development in the city. Sameer HaniniSteven Elliott April 28th, 2016, 06:58 PM
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Come and smell the roses! This year's Golden Triangle Rose Society Annual Spring Rose Show will be held Saturday, April 25, at the Tyrrell Park Garden Center in Beaumont. And this is an event so filled with the sweet aroma and the particular beauty of roses that you do not want to miss it!
What is the climbing, blooming, fragrant, vining vine that we all look forward to seeing this time of year? It will twine and climb and sprawl over fences, arches and other things in your yard that you would love to hide. Yes, it is the wonderful wisteria.
What says "spring" more than the purple blooms of an iris? The tall, beautiful iris is named after the Greek goddess who rode rainbows. She shows her spring glory in many colors but we all love that special purple of the goddess.
The Jefferson County Horticultural Committee members welcome you to call and register for their T-Budding and Pecan Grafting Workshop. Grafting improves the quality of the pecans growing on a tree. The workshop is going to be led by none other than Bonnie Childers. Bonnie, or "B.L.," could write a book on the subject. He is an extremely well-respected area gardening expert who has tackled this subject for years for the good folks of this community.
The Prunus Mexicano is an elegant gorgeous tree more commonly known as the Mexican plum. And it is one of the first beautiful budding trees that we see in February and March. The Mexican plum tree reminds us that spring is just around the corner.
It is time to get wise about water. Or do you have some questions about landscape design? The people who can help you are available this weekend. Saturday, March 7, from 8 a.m. until noon, the Texas A&M Agri-Life Extension Agency is presenting a timely and fascinating program, Landscape Design and Rainwater Harvesting. The fee to attend is only $10. The event will be held at the Beaumont Botanical Garden Center, 6088 Babe Zaharias, Beaumont.
There are certain signs that spring really is around the corner. It may not look like winter is even close to giving up, but there are those teasing glimpses of cheerful color that make us know that warmer temperatures are on the way.
One of the classic plants to look for as a sign of springtime is the primrose jasmine. This shrub or climber can grow 4-8 or more feet in height. And the bright yellow blooms can brighten up the dreariest winter scene.
When we have spring-like weather in February, I am reminded of my precious former mother-in-law, Mimi. Mimi was raised in a rambling country house near DeLeon, the real home of Dr Pepper. She was the oldest of 16 children. They knew their garden and they knew the weather. She warned every year to not be fooled by those balmy breezes in the midst of winter.
Are you ready for this year's Annual Tree Giveaway? Save some plastic bags or little cardboard boxes and plan on heading out to the Jack Brooks Regional Airport on Feb. 20 from 9-11 a.m. Volunteers from Jefferson County Master Gardener group will be on hand ready to give you your trees.
Ever wanted to try your hand at growing vegetables? Just think of the pure joy of walking out your kitchen door to pick tomatoes, lettuce, peas, beans, onions and other things to put onto your dinner table that evening. And it's not that hard.
Gardeners around here usually start their spring gardens in March after danger of frost has passed. Brave souls who want to grow their garden from seed can start indoors even earlier than that. You can plan on success with squash, tomatoes, corn, okra, peas, peppers and beans.
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TULSA, Okla., May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) and ONEOK Partners, L.P. (NYSE: OKS) today announced that Stephen W. Lake has been elected general counsel to succeed John R. Barker when he retires on Dec. 31, 2011. Lake, 47, will join ONEOK on July 1, 2011, as senior vice president, associate general counsel and assistant secretary, reporting to John Barker. Upon Barker's retirement, Lake will become senior vice president, general counsel and assistant secretary of ONEOK and ONEOK Partners, reporting to John W. Gibson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of ONEOK and ONEOK Partners.Lake has been general counsel at McJunkin Red Man Corporation (MRC) since joining the company in January 2008 and has served as an executive vice president since October 2008. Based in Houston, Texas, MRC is the largest global distributor of pipe, valves and fittings and related products and services to the energy and industrial sectors. Before joining MRC, Lake was a shareholder at Tulsa-based law firm, GableGotwals, specializing in securities law and mergers and acquisitions. He became a GableGotwals shareholder in January 1998 and served on the firm's board of directors from January 2005 until joining MRC. Lake joined GableGotwals as an associate in September 1991. "Steve's extensive legal background and strong leadership abilities, coupled with his extensive knowledge of and experience with ONEOK while at GableGotwals, make him the ideal choice to lead our legal function," Gibson said. " John Barker made significant contributions to our company during his seven-year tenure as general counsel, which included leading a series of complex legal transactions that resulted in ONEOK becoming sole general partner and significant owner of ONEOK Partners." Lake graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and graduated first in his class from the University of Oklahoma law school in 1991, where he was editor-in-chief of the Oklahoma Law Review from 1990-1991. Barker, 64, is senior vice president, general counsel and assistant secretary of ONEOK, and senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of ONEOK Partners. He joined ONEOK in December 2004 after a 30-year career with GableGotwals. While president of GableGotwals, Barker represented ONEOK on a regular basis on business and transactional matters, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial matters including sales and acquisitions of significant assets and public securities offerings. A Missouri native, Barker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 from the University of Missouri in Columbia and a Juris Doctorate degree in 1974 from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Editor's Note: Photographs of Lake and Barker are available on the ONEOK website . ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) is a diversified energy company. We are the general partner and own 42.8 percent of ONEOK Partners, L.P. (NYSE: OKS), one of the largest publicly traded master limited partnerships, which is a leader in the gathering, processing, storage and transportation of natural gas in the U.S. and owns one of the nation's premier natural gas liquids (NGL) systems, connecting NGL supply in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions with key market centers. ONEOK is among the largest natural gas distributors in the United States, serving more than 2 million customers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. Our energy services operation focuses primarily on marketing natural gas and related services throughout the U.S. ONEOK is a FORTUNE 500 company and is included in Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Stock Index. ONEOK Partners, L.P. (NYSE: OKS) is one of the largest publicly traded master limited partnerships, and is a leader in the gathering, processing, storage and transportation of natural gas in the U.S. and owns one of the nation's premier natural gas liquids (NGL) systems, connecting NGL supply in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions with key market centers. Its general partner is a wholly owned subsidiary of ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE), a diversified energy company, which owns 42.8 percent of the overall partnership interest. ONEOK is one of the largest natural gas distributors in the United States, and its energy services operation focuses primarily on marketing natural gas and related services throughout the U.S. For more information, visit the websites at www.oneok.com or www.oneokpartners.com . For the latest news about ONEOK and ONEOK Partners, follow us on Twitter @ONEOKNews and @ONEOKPartners
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This is what the Mountain Goats looked like if you were really drunk.
"I'm contractually obligated to do this song so you can all touch yourselves," said Kaki King, who at this point had the Showbox Market stage entirely to herself. She proceeded to make the sounds of a full band with just an acoustic guitar. According to wikipedia, "King's style combines fret-tapping with slap bass techniques, using the guitar for percussional beats, as well as sound layering and looping, which creates a percussive and complex sound." It's kind of like beatboxing with a guitar. But as impressive as she was, Kaki King wasn't the headliner, nor was she the highlight.
Those honors went to the Mountain Goats, who recently collaborated with Kaki King on an EP entitled Black Pear Tree. While she joined them for a few songs, her instrumental virtuosity and the reverb and distortion heavy wall-of-sound they made together didn't much suit Mountain Goats lead singer John Darnielle's storytelling style. Having a drummer on the tour, however, did, as it added extra kick to the cathartic vignettes. While he ignored constant crowd calls for the comically bilious "No Children", invoking Franz Kafka to justify his refusal, Darnielle did play crowd pleasers "Going to Georgia" (the best of his "Going to" series, in my opinion), "Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph of" (a poignant, defiant song about a guy trying to stay out of prison), and, to close the night, Stephen Colbert's favorite, "This Year," during which the now raucous, stomping crowd shouted along with the song's besotted 17-year-old protagonist: "I am going to make it through this year / if it kills me."


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The Large Hadron Collider is referenced in The Large Hadron Collision, The Cushion Saturation, and The Wiggly Finger Catalyst. Leonard was asked by the university to fill in for Professor Norton to attend a conference and see the CERN Supercollider. As he got to bring a guest, Raj was granted the opportunity to see it with him, after his first and second choices, Penny and Sheldon, respectively, fell ill. Yet, Sheldon has been dreaming of going to the Large Hadron Collider since he was nine years old, thus, Leonard's initial decision created a schism. He even put a commitment in the roommate agreement, stipulating what should happen if either Leonard or himself were able to visit the LHC. According to the Friendship Rider in Appendix C, Future Commitments, Number 37, "in the event one friend is ever invited to visit the Large Hadron Collider, now under construction in Switzerland, he shall invite the other friend to accompany him." After receiving some unrestricted grant money, Leslie Winkle pulled some strings and got Howard on a research trip to Geneva to check out the CERN Supercollider. Sheldon also came close to figuring out why the Large Hadron Collider has yet to isolate the Higgs boson particle, after becoming unburdened by trivial decisions for some time...(more)
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