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Meatball Stew RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 cup soft bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef (90% lean)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 cans (10-3/4 ounces each) condensed tomato soup, undiluted
- 2 cans (10-1/2 ounces each) condensed beef broth, undiluted
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
- 4 medium carrots, diced
- 1 jar (16 ounces) whole onions, drained
- 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
- In a large bowl, combine the egg, bread crumbs, chopped onion, salt, marjoram and thyme. Crumble beef over the top and mix well. Shape into 24 meatballs. Heat oil in a Dutch oven. Brown meatballs in batches; drain.
- Add the soup, broth, potatoes, carrots and whole onions. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until meat is no longer pink. Garnish with parsley. Yield: 8-10 servings.
Reviews for Meatball Stew
"Wonderful! Easy! Good!"
"So good even my daughter who dislikes beef tried and loved it she requested it when she came home from college."
"Made this stew this week. We enjoyed it very much and leftovers also. I used my own recipe for the meatballs. Added about 1 T. tomato paste in the stew and used an onion chopped for the jar of onions as that is what I had.Had some leftover peas so dumped those in also.... It is a keeper... Can't go wrong with meatballs...."
"I used mini shell pasta instead of the potatoes and it was great! Very comforting soup!"
"I simmer my meatballs in a bouillon broth (3 cups water; 2 chipotle bouillon cubes; 1 beef bouillon cube) and add them and the broth to the slow cooker with the veggies and a large jar of garlic-lime salsa (Great Value brand from Wal-Mart), which takes the place of the canned broth and soup. We sometimes add cilantro instead of parsley.Same basic recipe, just changed a bit to suit our tastes.Good stuff!"


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Save your energy on Black Friday as the next epic New York Dance party will be on 11.23. Q-Tip's last Offline edition in September was the biggest one yet. Past attendees included celebrities such as J.Cole, Mark Ronson, Grandmaster Flash, Just Blaze, DJ Cassidy, Busta Rhymes, Gabrielle Union, and many more.
Join over a thousand people dancing all night long on Q-Tip's supreme selection of funk, jazz, hip hop, salsa, and Latin records.
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Forest Grove Campus Improvements Update
Updated July 31
Professor Jules Boykoff Analyzes, Opines on Olympic Games Politics
An expert on the politics of international sport, Dr. Boykoff recently provided analysis and commentary about Olympic Games hosting bids to the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and The Guardian.
Working South of the Border
After a year in Mexico on a Fulbright Scholarship, Catie Prechtel '14 has headed south again to keep teaching English. An anthropology and Spanish major at Pacific, Prechtel hopes to make a career teaching English and exploring other cultures.
Improvements to North Side of Forest Grove Campus Begin Week of July 20
An extensive reconstruction of University Avenue and landscape enhancements will give the campus' north entrance a new look and feel.
University's Psi Chi Honor Society Named a Model Chapter
Pacific's chapter is among the top 4 percent in the country to be designated as such by the national organization.
Oregon Establishes Licensing for Music Therapists
Licensure will help grow profession, expand access to care, says Pacific University Director of Music Therapy Chris Korb.
Alumnus Represents Brazil in Football World Championship
Heron Souza de Azevedo '14 has worked nearly a decade to help grow American football in his native Brazil. In July 2015, he represented his nation's team at the International Federation of American Football World Championship in Ohio.
University Avenue to Undergo Reconstruction
Later this month, the north side of Pacific University's Forest Grove Campus will undergo significant road construction on University Avenue between Sunset Drive and College Way to improve both driver access and pedestrian safety.


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Happy Valentine's Day! And on this most romantic day of the year, what else could you possibly do than show some love … to your respirator. Last year on this day, we blogged about maintaining your relationship with your Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA). To continue to spread the love, this year we want to focus on those mining professionals who work up close and personally with Self-Contained Self-Rescuers (SCSRs). An SCSR is a lifesaving device that miners depend upon in times of emergency to escape from a hazardous environment within the mine. To keep this important device functioning reliably, daily inspections and upkeep become a 'life or death' matter. Though you may consider this to be a high-maintenance relationship, it is worth the necessary attention. In the event of an emergency, youneed to successfully don and activate your respirator as quickly as possible to escape from danger.
Manufacturer-recommended cleaning, handling, and visual inspection must be properly performed in order to ensure that your SCSR is functioning reliably. For example, a loose chemical bed or lack of starter oxygen can be the product of rough handling or a manufacturing defect, and these types of issues could go unnoticed without regular inspections. But you can easily get to know your respirator on a more intimate level and become aware of these issues. A good cleaning with a brush followed by visual inspection of the respirator case and indicators can identify failing respirators that need to be removed from service.
Respirator Care = Safe to Wear!
- Follow the manufacturer's instructions. How often is it that you get an instruction guide on how to maintain a relationship? Always carry and clean your SCSR as recommended by the manufacturer in order to avoid damage to your SCSR, such as excessive dents to the case. Store and use your SCSR within the manufacturer-specified temperature limits. Both excessive denting and exposure to temperature extremes can cause your SCSR to malfunction.
- Keep your SCSR free of dirt. Brushing dirt from your SCSR case daily will allow for proper day-to-day inspection. NIOSH research has found that dirt can hide problems or even cause damage to the device. During a recent NIOSH study, an in-service SCSR respirator was brushed to clean the soiled device. In the process, the researchers discovered a cracked moisture indicator. Had this SCSR been cared for on a daily basis, the indicator damage would have been discovered and the respirator would have been removed from service. This hidden flaw was a danger to the miner depending on the device in case of an emergency. When an indicator is damaged, an SCSR should always be removed from service.
- Check the sealing features of your SCSR case. A damaged seal can allow dirt or moisture into the case, which may cause your respirator to malfunction in an emergency situation.
If any part of your respirator is defective, get a replacement.
You only have one chance to escape from most mine emergencies. Clean and thoroughly inspect your SCSR every day. Your life may depend on it; so give your respirator this care so that you can enjoy many Valentine's Days with those that care for you!
Courtney Neiderhiser, MS and Jaclyn Krah, MA
Ms. Neiderhiser is a physical scientist in the NIOSH National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory.
Ms. Krah is a Health Communication Specialist in the NIOSH National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory.


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Von Gierke Disease
Von Gierke disease, also known as Type I glycogen storage disease, occurs due to impaired breakdown of glycogen to glucose.
Von Gierke disease is a genetic condition in which the body cannot breakdown glycogen for energy. The disease results from deficiency of an enzyme that releases glucose from glycogen. This results in accumulation of abnormal amounts of glycogen in certain tissues. Von Gierke disease is also called Type I glycogen storage disease (GSD I). Inadequate breakdown of glycogen leads to low blood glucose.
Von Gierke disease is unlikely to occur more frequently than 1 case in 50,000 infants. Affected newborns are at risk of neonatal hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and associated complications. There are two subtypes of Von Gierke disease: type 1a and type 1b. Both subtypes occur with equal frequency in both sexes.
Enlargement of the liver due to glycogen accumulation is the clinical hallmark of the disease. Diet management is the mainstay of therapy; low blood sugar is to be avoided. Diet is adjusted so as to maintain a steady-state balance between circulating glucose and existing glycogen stores.
Causes of Von Gierke disease
Glycogen is stored in the liver and muscles. This stored glycogen is normally broken down into glucose when a person does not eat. Type I glycogen storage disease is caused by deficiency of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase in liver, kidney, and intestinal mucosa (inner lining of the intestine). This enzyme is required for the release of glucose from glycogen. In subtype 1a, the glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme is defective while in subtype 1b, translocase, an enzyme that acts as a transporter for glucose-6-phosphatase, is defective.
Enzyme deficiency leads to the accumulation of glycogen in tissues. When glycogen is not broken down, it leads to low blood sugar.
Von Gierke disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, i.e. a copy of the defective gene from both parents is required for the child to develop the serious ailment. Many people carry one copy of the abnormal gene. Two abnormal copies are needed for Von Gierke disease to develop.
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So I am sick of my phone. I have tapped into the wonderful world of having the net at my finger tips, and my current phone is showing signs of limitations:
While it served it's purpose...just ain't doing it for me anymore...
So I have some questions before I go with the I-phone.
1. Do I HAVE to use I-tunes? Really?
Personally hate I-tunes. My computer hates I-tunes. I-tunes is teh Devil.
2. Will it download mp3s from sites such as Amazon.com?
I am thinking of just dumping my Zune and running with just one device to make things more simple. I was going to go with a 32GB model so I can rock my mp3s and podcasts and keep it all on one device.
3. 3GS or I-phone 4?
Friends at work say go with the older model. Also, is "refurbished" a bad thing? I was leaning towards a Refurbished 32GB 3GS. Right now AT%T is selling a refurbished one for about $149.
Prices have come down, and while I mostly text more than anything, I can easily go with a lower rate than the one I have now.
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Present: Joey Brown, Peter Erickson, Josh Grochow, Arielle Linsey, Laura Jones, Rachel Miller, Allison Ringhand, Nicholas Stock, Nick Tarasen
From the Library: Judi Nadler (chair), David Larsen, Rachel Rosenberg, Sem Sutter, Jim Vaughan, John Kimbrough (secretary)
John reported on various Library-related Scavhunt items.
Congratulations to Laura, Arielle, and other members of the LSRG (in abstentia) who are graduating. Jim and Sem presented books that have been purchased for the Library collections in honor of the graduating LSRG members.
[please email John if you would like a copy of these documents. The distributed PDF is actually meant to be two separate documents; it's just put together for convenience.]
Receiption: How will this document be received? One LSRG member thought the tone is much improved.
There is some sentiment that complete silence should be the default for Library buildings, and if not we should have explicitly zoned "silent spaces." What's LSRG's take on this?
If you want a quiet space, said one LSRG member, you need a smaller room where the prevailing culture can enforce silence. Explicit signage ("you are entering a quiet space") would also help.
Over this summer, we will begin contributing books to the Google Books Library Project, as part of the agreement between Google and the CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago, UIC, and Northwestern). We will begin with science materials.
Google has provided us a list of books they would like from our collections. They have a list of roughly 1m books that we hold that they don't currently have: history of science and area studies in particular, and also materials in non-Roman alphabets.
There is an ongoing settlement being litigated that may allow for more of a book (besides snippets) to be displayed. If the settlement goes through.
LSRG members asked: what'st the turnaround time for sending the book to Google and getting it back? Judi replied a few weeks. We can't really talk about precisely how much will be gone at one time, but it won't be half of Crerar or anything approaching that!
The LSRG took a tour up to a room on the fourth floor where prototypes of the new Manuseto furniture were available for preview.


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Tis is a pretty dope little system for the RSS of MSNBC called Spectra. While I don't think it quite works yet (each article, new window) its a unique and enjoyable experience (for some?) for gathering your news. I think its great for the iPhone generation who enjoy transitions, some life like attitude to their… Read More
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Natalie Daradich and Vicki Noon Photo by Joan Marcus
Power and control. Oppression and manipulation. Fear and prejudice. Theses are the themes that weave like a yellow brick road through the musical Wicked. The Broadway touring production, now at the Marcus Center Uihlein Hall, fills both ruby slippers in satisfying the principals of theatre and providing a spectacle of magic, music and fantasy.
For those not familiar, Wicked presupposes that The Wizard of Oz was just the white icing of a tale for the elaborate dark forest cake underneath. Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, Wicked looks at the fantastical world of Oz through the eyes of Elphaba, the character who would eventually become infamously known as the Wicked Witch of the West. The novel shows the witch as someone torn by unrequited love and trying to act in the best interests of Oz against a corrupt and manipulative government. In the story, Elphaba and Galinda, who will become Glinda the Good Witch, are roommates at college. Galinda is rich and spoiled, while Elphaba smart, bitter, and a pariah among her peers. It removes the clearly drawn lines of good and evil in The Wizard of Oz and places sympathy with the witch, presented as an outcast and wrongly feared– mostly because of the green complexion she was born with. While The Wizard of Oz, although a genius story in its own right, has dealings with mostly archetypal characters, Wicked breaks down those walls and makes it about more than just friends, family and adolescent change.
The musical, although taking many liberties with the source material, manages, through imagination and inventiveness, to maintain the themes of the plot: power earned through the illusion of magic and sorcery, fear of what you don't understand, and that good and evil are not opposites but genuinely inseparable and entwined. Indeed, no one is entirely good and no one is completely evil, despite how some might be perceived by the masses.
Stephen Schwartz's music is instantly engaging and his lyrics are cleverly dense with foreshadowing and allusion to it's precedents. Chills are sure to ripple through the audience from numerous numbers, the pinnacle being Defying Gravity, the number that ends the first act. The choreography shines upon the entrance of Fiyero, the love interest of both young witches. Genius movement of the ensemble neatly foreshadows to who the popular and good looking— yet thick –Fiyero will eventually become.
Natalie Daradich has endless fun in her role as the popular goody-good Glinda. She is lithe, fun to watch and reaches far to bring depth to a shallow character. As Elphaba,Vicki Noon is a delight to see and hear. Her stage presence is riveting– not just because she's green –and her singing is magnanimous. Kristine Reese, Zach Hanna and Don Amendolla offer great stage support as Nessarose, Boq and the Wizard respectively. As Fiyero, Chris Peluso steps smoothly through the physical requirements of the role but falters a bit when it comes to his singing prowess.
The costume design is perfectly unified and inventive, colorful and fun, yet careful not to go over the top. The elaborate costumes of Madame Morrible, headmistress of the university, are the highlight of the characters' attire. Besides an odd mechanical dragon that overlooks the stage, the set magnificently supports the themes of machinations and manipulations of the government— as well as time and history –with numerous images and stage pieces composed of clocks and spinning gears. Sometimes the lighting is so beautiful and breathtaking, be it the sky backdrops, the shine of the Emerald City, or a sorcery effect, it becomes distracting to the drama of the characters.
Wicked will be playing at the Marcus Center through August 8th. Performances are Tuesday through Thursday at 7:30p.m., Friday at 8:00p.m., Saturday at 2:00 and 8:00p.m., and Sunday at 1:00 and 6:30p.m. Best available seating remains for performances during the last week of the run. It runs approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes with a 15-minute intermission. www.marcuscenter.org


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"Koikeya The Pioneer of Potato Chips in Japan" ... " 'Karamucho is Spicy & Tasty potato chips with chili powder and other various spices." ... "Made in Taiwan" ... " 'Ultimate Spicy Potato Chips' from Japan" ... "Karamucho was born in Japan in 1984. After many years of development and study, Karamucho is favored by many people nowadays, as the 'Original Spicy potato chips'. Karamucho is the No. 1 popular selling brand in the spicy snack category in Japan."
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Online tests and the digital divide: Will poor children be left behind?
"Lots of kids are really comfortable with technology, but there's a cross-section of kids that don't have a lot of access," said Douglas Levin, director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association, which is helping states get ready for the switch from paper and pencil. "There is a fear that for kids who do not have


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TRAIL CLOSED SINCE 2014. Relocation work under way, possibly into 2016
"I'm not sure if it will be open next spring... We're working as hard as we can. …
At the very latest, it will open sometime next year. I just don't know if we'll open it fully or limit the number of hikers to something like 50 percent of the traffic at first."
Late last winter substantial debris movement occurred on most of the portion of the Abol Trail ascending the Abol Slide.
The resulting debris field presents an area of exceptional hazard with a high risk of additional downslope movement of rocks, large boulders and debris.
As wilderness stewards, our philosophy is to protect the Park's resources and to provide accurate and complete advice and recommendations for safe and responsible travel in a wilderness environment.
Abol Slide presents significant hazard not only to the individual hiker, but to other hikers in the vicinity, especially to any hikers downslope.
Existing hazards on the slide will significantly limit or prevent any search and rescue response in the area.
In response to the clear and present danger, the Abol Trail is closed for 2014 hiking season.
Hiking on the Abol Trail is prohibited. Hikers on the trail will be subject to summons and billed for cost reimbursement of any search and rescue expense incurred on their behalf.
Day Use Parking Reservation (DUPR) capacity at Katahdin Stream and Roaring Brook Campgrounds has been increased to accommodate the closure of the Abol Trail.
We will be developing a plan for future options regarding this important and popular Katahdin-access route.
OverviewIMPORTANT: this page describes the Abol Trail as it existed until 2014. When the new route opens (originally projected for fall 2015, but sometime in 2016 now seems more likely), it will have the same beginning and ending but will *not* follow the rockslide that defined the character of the old trail.
ApproachThe trailhead is within the Abol Campground. The campground is on the perimeter road not far from the park's southern entrance.
Route DescriptionClick links to see corresponding photos.
Starts as an easy wooded trail at about 1200 ft elevation. On this lower section the trail follows a streambed as often as not.
After about an hour, slope increases some more and the trees thin out just enough to afford partial views. Soon thereafter the trail heads straight up a VERY STEEP rockslide, which takes you all the way up to the summit plateau and the intersection with the Hunt Trail (A.T.) by Thoreau Spring (about 4600 ft elevation) Note: Thoreau Spring is not always reliable in late summer.
The Baxter Cut-Off continues north-northeast, avoiding Baxter Peak and instead providing a flat route to the eastern edge of the Saddle. Take a right on the Hunt Trail to bag the summit.
Essential GearNothing other than the usual New England weather gear.
Waterproof boots are a good idea though not really needed if you watch your step.
You'll need your hands often enough that you might not want to bring trekking poles.
Check with the park rangers before planning a snow or ice climb - when we were there in October, the rangers had closed the top of the mountain for a day due to a couple of inches of snow. The Abol Trail would be very slippery with only a little snow or ice. I've climbed other New England peaks in icy conditions using just crampons and poles, but I wouldn't want to try it on this trail: arrest could be a real problem.


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In this world, nothing is certain but death, taxes and the fact that teen stars grow up. Most of the kids who have dominated pop culture for the better part of the past decade—Miley, Taylor, Demi, Selena, Rihanna, Jordin and three guys with the last name Jonas—are old enough to vote, smoke, drink and get in all sorts of tabloid-y trouble, Meanwhile, boy-king-of-the-world Justin Bieber turned 17 last month, which means that there's already a significant portion of his audience who have already outgrown him. So, which freakishly talented prodigies will dominate the Twittersphere and the Ellen DeGeneres Show in the months and years to come? Popdust presents "17 Under 17," our picks for the artists, age 16 and under, who are best poised to capture the hearts and allowance money of young America.
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Ramon Quinones. Today, at approximately 6:40 a.m., members of the HPD's Violent Crime Impact Team and Intelligence Division executed a search and seizure warrant at 866-868 Park Street for Firearms. During the search and seizure police seized a .38 caliber revolver with six live rounds of ammunition, one assault weapon, a 995 Hi-Point 9mm with ten live rounds, 140 bags of Heroin, two grams of crack cocaine, and $10004.00 in U.S. Currency. Arrested was Ramon "Chongo" Quinones, DOB 8/8/79, of 866-868 Park Street, who was charged with criminal possession of a pistol, possession of narcotics, possession of a machine gun, possession with intent to sell (PWITS), possession of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school, stealing a firearm, and risk of injury. Quinones remains in custody on $750,000 bond.
Ramon Quinones, DOB 8/8/79 Guns, Ammunition, Drugs and Cash Seized at 866-868 Park Street
Oscar Martinez and Angel Torres. On June 20th at 2:30 p.m., in response to numerous citizen complaints of illegal drug activity in the area of the Sands Housing Complex, and months of investigation by members of the Hartford Police Department's Northeast Vice and Narcotics Unit, police arrested Oscar Martinez, DOB 7/28/87, of 51 New Donald Street, Hartford and Angel Torres, DOB 7/6/75, of 73 Haskin Street, Springfield, Massachusetts. Both were arrested at 51 New Donald Street, and charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school with a court date of July 2, 2007.. Martinez was also charged with possession with intent to sell a controlled substance and his bond was set at $30,000. Torres' bond was set at $15,000. See mugshots below.
Shelby Lindsey and
David March. On June 20th detectives of the HPD's Vice and
Narcotics Division were conducting a mobile surveillance in the upper Albany
Avenue area in the vicinity of Sigourney Street. Detectives observed a
white Ford Taurus being operated by a White male slowing down attempting to
flag down several pedestrian in the area. Eventually a Black male
enter the vehicle and a narcotics transaction was observed. After the
transaction the Black male exited the vehicle which then drove off south on
Sterling. The suspect, Shelby Lindsey, DOB 12/14/85, of 10 Liberty Street,
Hartford, was taken into custody after a foot chase and charged with three
courts of PWITS of narcotics, two counts interfering with police, tampering
with evidence, two counts of possession of narcotics, and possession of
narcotics within 1,500 feet of a school. Lindsey's bond was set at
$350,000. The operator of the White, 1996 Ford Taurus, David March,
DOB 8/29/56, of 294 Chester Street, East Hartford, was charged with
possession of narcotics. March's bond was set at $25,00 and has a
court date of July 2, 2007. He vehicle, the !996 Ford Taurus was
seized by police. See below for mugshots.
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Here we go, folks! Rumors are now floating around that the highly rumored X-Phone will feature a 4.8-inch 1920x1080 display. We should expect the X-Phone to feature Sony's Exmor camera sensor, too.
Better yet, we can expect it to rock the latest Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie OS, which should have some nifty features and improved battery life. We should also expect there to be a 128GB model, and Motorola's Kevlar design that is build to be water-resistant. Google's I/O conference is nearly here, in May 15-17, where we should see this next big step from Google announced.


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Israeli Acting Ambassador Hurt in Abidjan Embassy Evacuation
Staff, evacuated under heavy fire Friday, was en route to Israel Sunday.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 4/10/2011, 10:37 PM / Last Update: 4/10/2011, 10:45 PM
The staff of the Israeli Embassy in Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast, was evacuated on Friday (April 8) by a UN force after having been holed up in the ambassador's residence for days due to the civil war that is raging in the country.
The evacuation took place under heavy fire between the rival forces. The acting ambassador was injured during the evacuation.
The staff were evacuated to the UN forces headquarters in Abidjan, where it was decided to fly the four Israeli diplomats to Akra, the capital of neighboring Ghana. After verifying that UN forces were evacuating those Israelis in the Ivory Coast whom they could reach, the embassy staff members boarded the plane and landed in Akra, where they were received by the Israeli diplomatic team engaged in opening a new Israeli embassy there.
The injured diplomat received medical treatment at a local hospital.
In the evening, the diplomatic staff took off from Akra, and was expected to arrive in Israel on Sunday afternoon.
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Beresford Hotel IFSC
The hotel is close to the Bus, Luas and Train stations so travelling around the city and beyond is simple.
The ultimate location for those who want to explore the city, Beresford Hotel IFSC is close to a host of tourist attractions and venues including:
•The 3 Arena – 15 minute walk or 5 minute tram ride
•Croke Park Stadium – 15 minute walk
•The Aviva Stadium – 5 minute train ride
•Temple Bar – 12 minute walk
•Guinness Storehouse – 40 minute walk / 20 minute bus journey
•IFSC – 3 minute walk
•O'Connell Street – 4 minute walk
•Dublin Mountains – 30 minute bus journey
•Old Jameson Whiskey distillery – 25 minute walk/ 7 minute tram ride
•Trinity College / The Book of Kells – 12 minute walk
Il Vignardo Restaurant is an authentic Italian eatery which has gained many awards and is a perfect venue for a pre theatre dinner before a show at one of the nearby theatres or venues. Café Le Monde is a relaxing bar in which to unwind with a drink or have an informal lunch.
So whether you are looking for a city break to Dublin, are attending a special event or fancy a shopping trip to the city, stay with Beresford Hotel IFSC.


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AMC Renews "Preacher" for Season 2
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TNT is developing a drama based on Dean Koontz's five-novel Frankenstein series, Deadline reports. Screenwriter James V. Hart (Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1994's Frankenstein) and his son Jake Hart will write the project from Lionsgate Television and 1019 Entertainment.
Debuting in 2004 with Prodigal Son, Frankenstein is a reinvention of the Mary Shelley classic, follows Victor Frankenstein (now using the name Victor Helios) and his creation nearly two centuries after they believed they killed each other on the Arctic ice. Kept alive by science, Helios has continued to create lifeforms to suit his own purposes. When the creature, now calling himself Deucalion, discovers Frankenstein is alive and in the same city, an epic war begins, with New Orleans caught in the middle.
James Hart and Koontz are set to produce.
The is the second television go-around for Koontz's Frankenstein, which aired on USA Network as a TV movie/back-door pilot, based on a treatment by Koontz and his co-author Kevin J. Anderson. The series wasn't picked up.
when did the first backdoor pilot air?
I think it was around 2002 or so. It wasn't terrible.
2005, I meant.
cool. thanks.
Read the novels first.The fact that USA screwed up big time and dropped the project as one executive team was fired and another decided to not follow through with the mini series led to a stronger story line as novels.After that fiasco Koontz is nuts not to come directly on board as head writer.
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Lochte wins three events in Charlotte's Speedo Champions Series
Published: Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 11:18 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 11:30 p.m.
Port Orange's Ryan Lochte won the 100 back in 45.34 seconds Saturday at the Charlotte stop of the Speedo Champions Series.
Lochte's career-best time is 44.60 from 2006.
Lochte was second in the 50 free in 19.66; Cullen Jones won in 19.58.
On Friday, Lochte won the 200 free in 1:32.46 — .06 off his personal-best from 2008 — and the 100 fly in a personal-best 45.44.
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The Jazz.com Blog
September 23, 2009 · 2 comments
No Big Macs for Jazz
As seasoned readers of this space may recollect, perhaps with a shudder, jazz.com's version of Sherlock Holmes, intrepid curmudgeon Alan Kurtz, last year led us to Buddy Bolden on the Holodeck, for a voyage so fantastic it seemed like science fiction. (Hmm, maybe it was science fiction.) Now Holmes—make that Kurtz—briefly returns from his self-imposed exile amid the fog-shrouded bogs of Dartmoor, where he has taken refuge from the tar-&-feather brigade of irate bass players, to tell us about … the phone that did not ring. T.G.
On September 22, the philanthropic MacArthur Foundation announced its latest Genius Awards, selecting 24 Fellows for their "creativity, originality and potential to make important contributions" in the arts and sciences. Jazz.com's Chris Kelsey summed up the results with a droll Variety-style headline on his own blog: "2009 MacArthurs Announced, Jazz Gets Bupkis."
As in previous years, recipients learned by a phone call "out of the blue" (as the Foundation likes to put it) that they'll each receive $500,000 in 20 quarterly installments, with "no strings attached," and "may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers." Considering jazz's current economic outlook, if a jazz artist were to win such a grant, the latter choice might be wisest. In any case, it was the phone that did not ring that caught my attention, much as the dog that didn't bark intrigued Sherlock Holmes. For nowhere on that list of newly minted MacFellows was the one name I'd expected: Dr. Clive Cabman, director of Cabman Laboratories, cutting-edge developer par excellence of artificial intelligence and virtual reality systems applied to jazz.
This was, I knew, not a simple case of snobbery, for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has proven itself a generous patron of jazz. To date, of 33 Genius Awards in Music, 40% have gone to jazz artists, including such notables as Regina Carter, Ornette Coleman, Steve Lacy, Max Roach, George Russell and Cecil Taylor. However, it was not among musicians that I'd expected to find Dr. Cabman, for he has never played, sung or composed a note. Rather, I looked for him in either the Computer Science or Technology & Invention category. Inexplicably, he was missing.
How could this be? Surely the Foundation's hundreds of anonymous nominators couldn't overlook so conspicuous an achiever as Dr. Cabman. I realize that Genius Awards are not based on past accomplishment, but rather serve to encourage individual recipients to fulfill their potential for the future benefit of humanity. Yet that's precisely why Cabman's omission is so glaring. Who has more humanitarian potential than a scientist striving to relieve homo sapiens from the dangers and drudgery of creating jazz? It must've been the Foundation's 12-person Selection Committee that failed to recommend Cabman to their Board of Directors.
As for why, you need only recall that the MacArthur Foundation was a principal sponsor of Ken Burns's epic documentary JAZZ (2001), which has served since its premiere as flagship for the controversial Axis of Evil comprising Burns, Wynton Marsalis & Stanley Crouch. No doubt neocon cultural politics were responsible for snubbing Dr. Cabman. After all, not once in Burns's marathon of ten 2-hour episodes does a jazz-playing robot or android appear, nor is a single cyberneticist invited to join the scatting heads. Yes, the terrible triumvirate's bias against nonhuman jammers could not be more apparent. They ought to rename themselves the John D. and Catherine T. MacLuddite Foundation.
Indignantly, I set aside my customary morning reading of Hunting Quail in Your Retirement by Dick Cheney and began the painstaking process of telephonically tracking down Dr. Cabman for comment. Hours later, I finally reached him in the south of France, where he was inspecting producers of top-of-the-line saxophone reeds.
"Saxophone reeds?" I repeated incredulously. Cabman was always up to something.
"My latest project," he explained. "Robo Bird."
"Hasn't that already been done?" I inquired, reminding him of the YouTube video where an electromechanical device toots John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" on a disembodied tenor sax.
"Ridiculous," scoffed Cabman. "A clumsy gadget unfit for a high-school science fair. Godfried-Willem Raes's Autosax plays better, but is no more anthropomorphic than a lawnmower. It's damn silly looking, if you ask me."
"Something more humanoid, then." I mentioned Toyota's 5-feet-tall robot violinist with computer-controlled joints in its arms and fingers; in 2007, this remarkable invention took to the stage at a Tokyo showroom and fiddled "Pomp and Circumstance" with childlike naďveté before invited guests. The YouTube video of this momentous event has since amassed 1.3 million views and been rated an average 4˝ out of 5 stars by thousands of impressed respondents. (By comparison, YouTube's clip of a proper English symphony orchestra doing the same piece conducted by its esteemed composer, Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet OM KCVO, no less, has attracted a million fewer visitors.)
"A fine technical achievement," Dr. Cabman allowed of the Japanese Perlman, "but artistically infantile. Robo Bird can render not merely a familiar melody, but improvised passages of dazzling complexity and infinite variety. Come January, this shall all become clear." Cabman laid out his breathtakingly ambitious demo plan. Equipped with an ordinary alto sax, Robo Bird will re-create "Now's the Time" as recorded by Charlie Parker's Reboppers in November 1945. However, instead of Bird's three ad lib choruses, Robo Bird will deliver, at the same laidback tempo of 144 BPM, a staggering 1 million uninterrupted, uniquely extemporized choruses, breaking only as needed at irregular intervals during bars 11 and 12 while technicians hurriedly exchange his mouthpiece to keep Robo Cop supplied with a fresh reed. The total performance will last 231.48 days and will be freely available on the Internet as live streaming video. "Wait till next year!" Dr. Cabman exhorted. "Those clowns on MacArthur's Selection Committee can't possibly ignore me again!"
And then a sinister, devilish, brilliantly paranoid thought hit me, as out of the blue as a MacArthur Foundation phone call. What if Cabman, that secretive, reclusive figure who has never been photographed—does he even have a passport? It's rumored he travels abroad entirely by automated corporate jet, programmed to land at only the remotest private airports—what if Cabman himself is … well, a robot? A magnificent android of his own design! Maybe the MacArthurs passed him over not because of interference from the Axis of Evil, but due to his indeterminate species, like last summer's star athlete of unclassified gender.
I was thunderstruck. This, I perceived with blinding journalistic clarity, is big. Watergate big. If I can dig to the bottom of such an important story, I'll probably cop a Big Mac in 20 quarterly installments myself. Hell, one of 2009's winners is an investigative reporter. Why not me in 2010? Yes, I must now take my leave to solve this urgent mystery and spare humanity the pain and suffering of a million uninterrupted choruses of "Now's the Time." Who knows? Next year it might be my phone that rings out of the blue.
This blog entry posted by Alan Kurtz
Chris Albertson
// Sep 25, 2009 at 08:42 PM
"Next year it might be my phone that rings out of the blue." Don't hold your breath.
Alan Kurtz
// Sep 26, 2009 at 06:07 PM
For those fortunate few who don't follow such things, please note that the preceding churlish comment was prompted by an unfriendly exchange on September 12, 2009, posted at Mr. Albertson's blog, where I responded to his self-serving account of some petty, ancient dispute between himself and Leonard Feather. "I could not hope to do as good a job of bringing you down as you yourself have done over the years," the boorish Mr. A. wrote in a nasty letter, reproduced in full, to the estimable Mr. F. "You may have spent a lifetime successfully establishing your name, but you have failed to give it meaning."
After I criticized this tiresome triviality, Mr. A. huffily replied: "I don't know who you are, Alan, or what you have done to promote the music, but I have spent over fifty years writing about and actively engaged in jazz and blues." Well, EXCUUUSE ME!
So now Mr. A. snipes at my blog, demonstrating that, to him, payback is a kvetch. I shall write this off as professional jealousy. He's probably angling for a MacArthur Genius Award himself. Pardon me while I fall asleep.


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The George Mason wrestler will be participating in the U.S. World Team Trials with a berth in the Junior World Championships in August on the line.
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Johansson, Jan
Jan Johansson possessed a clear technical virtuosity on many instruments, and is viewed by many as Sweden's most important jazz pianist. His top-selling 1964 album Jazz pĺ Svenska was the first to use Scandinavian folk songs as vehicles for jazz improvisation.
Jan Johansson was born on September 16, 1931, just outside of the eastern coastal town of Söderhamn in the Hälsingland province, which lies approximately 140 miles (225 km) north of Stockholm. His family endeavored musically, but mainly as a hobby. Johansson's father, Valter, was a self-taught amateur musician who directed and wrote arrangements for a local brass band.
Valter also had a curiosity for shortwave radio and other technology, which Jan inherited. When Jan was at the elementary and middle school level, his mother (who was a teacher), taught him piano. He continued to develop as a classical pianist, and by his early teens played challenging solo repertoire by Schubert, Mozart, Chopin, and Beethoven.
Learning to play jazz in local groups, he tackled accordion and guitar between 1947 and 1950. Once high school ended, Johansson entered compulsory military service in the Signal Corps, where he continued to play classical piano and guitar as a hobby. In September 1952, he entered the Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, aiming to become a civil engineer with a concentration in low-voltage electro-technology.
While at Chalmers, he became the musical director for university theater productions called "spex" which were parodies of historical subjects dominated by song and witty dialogue. In selecting the music for one spex called Gustav E:son Vasa (Gustav Vasa the Eleventh) in 1955, Johansson happened upon the song "Emigrantvisa" (also titled "De Sĺlde Sina Hemman"), which he would make a jazz classic in Sweden some years later.
Johansson's years in Gothenburg were spent directing the musical spectacles known as "spex" and jamming in local nightclubs like Wauxhall and Gasque Cellar. Here he would play with visiting musicians of note such as Clifford Brown, Danish violinist Svend Asmussen, and local active musicians like bassist Gunnar Johnson and drummer Kenneth Fagerlund.
In the summer of 1955, Gunnar Johnson put together a group to play and tour the Swedish folk parks with vocalist Sonya Hedenbratt. Johansson was hired to be a part of this band, which collaborated with Stan Getz towards the end of its tour in a sudden stint of concerts. In December, tenor saxophonist Hacke Björksten led a quintet featuring Johansson in a recording session in Stockholm, and the resulting EP went on to win the Golden Disc award from Orkester Journalen the following year.
In May of 1956, Johansson would record his first session as a leader in Gothenburg, a trio date that he described as "an ideal opportunity for self-torture." The fledgling jazz pianist spent the upcoming summer again touring Sweden with Gunnar Johnson's Quintet. While most of the year had less work other than club dates and short weekend tours, the summers continued to be full of gigging opportunities for Johansson. He continued to work with Gunnar Johnson in Gothenburg club dates, summer tours, and various recordings. One tour led the group, with Getz participating, to Norway, after which one reviewer summarized Johansson's playing by saying, "He owns a virtuosity seldom heard in jazz pianists, displaying truly modernistic phrasing and a rich register of harmonic tools that emphasizes dissonant tonalities."
Johansson now had enough experience to pursue being a musician full-time, although he hesitated to give up the prospects of a regular working life for some time. His ability to live this double-life of daytime studies at Chalmers and nighttime gigging would only last so long, and at some point between 1956 and 1958, his time at Chalmers ended unsuccessfully, and without a diploma.
In the winter of 1959, Stan Getz formed a quartet to play at Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark along with Americans Oscar Pettiford (bass) and Joe Harris (drums). Getz asked Johansson to join the quartet, and this apprenticeship at Montmartre lasted for ten months (with short breaks), allowing Johansson to gain wider recognition and gain influence from legendary jazzmen, namely Pettiford, who would continue to record with Johansson after the Montmartre gig ended in 1960.
With the relation to Getz solidified, Johansson was fortunate enough to be included on concerts in Stockholm and Copenhagen as a part of Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) in Europe shows, and notably was the first European to be a part of this organization. The Stan Getz Quartet would include Oscar Peterson Trio bandmates Ray Brown (bass) and Ed Thigpen (drums), with Johansson holding down the piano chair.
Gothenburg was becoming less fertile ground for jazz music towards the later 1950s, due in part to the influence of rock music on local establishments. Johansson found an outlet through a record company devoted initially to documenting the "spex" productions at Chalmers. Megafon records released a series of three EP's by Johansson, the first of which was titled Mäster Johansgatan 12 (Master Johan's Street, No. 12), which won Johansson a Golden Disc award from Orkester Journalen in 1960. This would be the second time his involvement resulted in this award, but more were still to come.
After a move to Stockholm in 1961, Johansson began associations with top Swedish jazz artists. Saxophonist/clarinetist Arne Domnérus hired him as a replacement for pianist Gunnar Svensson for recording projects and showcases at the famous dance hall Nalen. A trio album titled 8 Bitar Johansson (8 Pieces of Johansson) won the pianist his third Golden Disc award from Orkester Journalen, and includes the songs "Willow Weep for Me" and "Prisma." Johansson also began recording with guitarist Rune Gustafsson around this time, appearing on the latter's Young Guitar, as well as dueting on guitar on the album Johansson & Gustafsson.
Between 1962 and 1964, Johansson released three significant EPs of Swedish folk songs from various counties of the country. These selections, which included "Emigrantvisa" and "Visa frĺn Utanmyra" were researched from a twenty-four-volume compendium of Swedish songs published between 1933 and 1944.
The songs were arranged for duet with acoustic bass, provided by Georg Riedel, a colleague from the Arne Domnérus Band at the time. The resulting tracks were then compiled on an LP released in 1964 titled Jazz pĺ Svenska (Jazz in Swedish).
Johansson had captured lightning in a bottle with these recordings, and his place in Scandinavian jazz was solidified. The album since has sold over 200,000 copies, and among Swedish jazz lovers, it is regarded as an enduring "must-have" similar to Miles Davis's Kind of Blue or Dave Brubeck's Time Out.
Following up on the success of Jazz pĺ Svenska, Johansson collaborated with a team of Sweden's best jazz arrangers – Georg Riedel, Bengt Hallberg, and Bengt-Arne Wallin – in order to submit material to the Radio Monte Carlo competition titled Le Jazz de Ville et le Jazz des Champs (City Jazz and Country Jazz) in 1965. Their program of music titled Äventyr i Jazz och Folkmusik (An Adventure in Jazz and Folk Music) won the competition, and featured the Jan Johansson Quintet playing sprightly jazz to a field recording overdub of a vocalist singing a fiddler's tune by mouth, imitating the sound of the fiddle on "Lapp-Nils Polska." Subsequent "regional song" albums included a quartet album of Russian songs titled Jazz pĺ Ryska, which included the song "Stepp, min Stepp." A collaboration with Danish violinist Svend Asmussen on a theme of Hungarian music also resulted in the album Jazz pĺ Ungerska.
Leading a number of working bands in the mid-1960s, Johansson was busy with his trio of bass and drums, along with another trio of the piano-bass-guitar format popularized by Nat "King" Cole, Oscar Peterson, and others. This trio, featuring Georg Riedel on bass and Rune Gustafsson on guitar, would record a memorable concert at the Tallinn Jazz Festival in Estonia in June 1966. The Jan Johansson Quintet would also go on to record an exploratory album titled 300.000 in 1968. Some tracks on this album employed the use of overdubs (of a river stream, as well as an astronaut's voice), and a solo recording of "St. Louis Blues" is also included.
With a busy career as a composer for large orchestras, jazz bands, and film soundtrack projects, Johansson produced a large collection of challenging ensemble material. For television, he made music to accompany calisthenic exercises called Rädda Sverige (Save Sweden), and also wrote music each year for the ballet and jazz collaborations that the Arne Domnérus Band did at the Royal Opera House. Johansson appeared also on Swedish television with Monica Zetterlund, in addition to writing the theme song to the television show of Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking and music to numerous films, including by directors Ingmar Bergman and Hans Abrahamson. Other large-scale works are Till exempel I, II, III, a piano concerto titled Helgeandsholmen, and an album titled Den Korta Fristen (The Short Respite) which won a Swedish Grammy. This album was recorded by Radiojazzgruppen (The Radio Jazz Group), an ensemble of composers and arrangers that formed in 1965 after the disbanding of Harry Arnold's Radio Band, another ensemble where Johansson was a featured member.
On his way to a church concert in Jönköping, Sweden on November 9, 1968, Johansson was killed in a car accident when an airport bus headed in the opposite direction veered into his lane, colliding with his car head on. Subsequent memorial concerts, the establishment of a scholarship stipend in his name, and the founding of a re-issue label (Heptagon Records) by his two sons Anders and Jens, have helped keep the memory of Johansson's impact on Scandinavian jazz alive.
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Reconstruction Adviser: Time to Push Reforms
As Japan deliberates how to best tackle the backbreaking task of reconstruction in the tsunami-battered northeast region, the challenges ahead have accelerated the urgency of addressing unresolved reform measures lingering from before the earthquake-triggered crisis.
"Social security reform and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (trade pact) are very important conditions to think about in the reform plan," said Atsushi Seike, the president of Keio University, appointed to the government reconstruction council. Speaking in an interview Friday, Mr. Seike said, "Some people are discussing, 'Hey we had a very big accident, forget about TPP and social security reform for a while.' But that is absolutely a ridiculous idea. We have even more of a necessity to do that now."
While immediate relief efforts are limited to the northeast region, the massive devastation will have a widespread impact on the country that brings the need to pass stalled reform measures into sharp focus, said Mr. Seike, a seasoned labor economist. Japan's economy is already creaking under a heavy debt load twice its gross domestic product, a social security system burdened with a graying population, and stiff policies dulling Japan Inc.'s competitive edge over foreign rivals. Addressing the longstanding issues central to coping with these is crucial to Japan's long term reconstruction, for which there will be a costly bill that could lengthen the country's economic doldrums.
The Democratic Party of Japan-led government was set to decide in June whether to join negotiations on the controversial TPP, a wide-ranging trade agreement that aims to eliminate all tariffs within 10 years. But the government said it will postpone discussions to focus on immediate post-quake relief efforts. Other hot-button social security and tax reform measures such as slashing the corporate tax to boost Japan Inc.'s ability to compete with overseas companies, cornerstones of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's growth strategy floated last year, have also been shelved.
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Mr. Seike estimates public expenditure to fund recovery efforts could balloon to as much as 20 trillion yen, about four times more than the cost incurred following the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe in 1995. Moves like lifting the retirement age, a proposal that the university president has championed for years, could alleviate a social security system already bogged down by the aging postwar baby boomers.
"I think the necessity of raising the retirement age is even more obvious now," he said.
Prior to March 11, Mr. Seike thought lifting the minimum retirement age five more years from the current 60 would be sufficient. Now be believes it should be increased to 70, a point he has conveyed to the reconstruction committee in the clearest of terms. About 23% of Japan is 65 years or older. The mass retirement of the boomer generation in recent years has already increased the annual social security expenditure by an additional three trillion yen each year. Total social security expenditure has swelled to 105.5 trillion yen, almost double the amount compared to when the Hanshin Earthquake hit Kobe in 1995.


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The Monday after the Masters in Georgia.
A time to decompress from eight or nine days of activities and stress surrounding the first major of the year.
If you were Sergio Garcia or Justin Rose this week, it was a chance to play golf on a course with 15-inch cups for nine holes.
Yep, two of the best and most well known golfers in the world teed it up on April 14, with a select group on media members at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, GA for an event that basically was a "smilefest."
It was the brainchild of TaylorMade CEO, Mark King as part of his Hack Golf initiative. King is focused on bringing new people to the sport of golf and he's willing to entertain radical ideas to jump start a sport that has been losing golfers over the last decade.
The 15-inch cups are one of the ideas Hack Golf is getting behind and bringing Garcia and Rose to the Lake Oconee resort added some credibility to his ideas.
King has a sense of humor and he opened the day giving Garcia and Rose a hard time for not winning the Masters.
"Based on their finishes this past weekend," King said in jest. "Maybe they need the 15-inch cup."
Garcia and Rose took seats right with the media to hear about this bold new idea.
Ted Bishop of the PGA of America is also on board with King's vision as he owns golf courses that he want to fill with new golfers.
Garcia and Rose had big smiles on their faces the entire day and with the large pizza-sized cups Garcia shot a 30 and Rose a 33.
I thought they would shoot lower, but as I also played the cups, there is an adjustment when it comes to putting.
Namely, you can go for the puts. It's a lot of fun, once you kind of figure it out.
It's all about growing the game of golf.
"I think it (the game) has changed," explained Garcia. "We've seen throughout the years the technology has changed; I think it's simpler than that. We love promoting the game and want the game to grow. When you see the numbers decreasing, you start to worry. For me this is something that can help keep the game strong."
Rose says it gives the sport a facelift in a positive way.
"A couple times I hit poor tee shots," added Rose. "In normal golf, you would try to figure out the best way to save par, and my mindset changed to... if I can get this up around the green, I can still make birdie."
King says that a package will be put together to sell the concept of the 15-inch cups to facilities across the country.
But the best salespeople will be the people that play the large cups and have a blast putting and chipping.
"If anyone want's any putting tips on (the 15-inch cups), I'm the one," said King at the post-round Q & A. "The perfect putt on the normal cup goes 18 inches by; and the perfect on the big cup is 17 or 18 feet by."
Like I said, and judging from Sergio's and Justin's reactions from the day, it's fun!
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Let's think outside of the box for a moment.
If you put a Tiger from one part of the jungle in a cage with another Tiger from a different part of the jungle and gather a large group of people to watch what unfolds, only a few things are likely to happen.
A: The two Tigers miraculously make friends, leaving everyone around watching in disappointment, as the newly acquainted jungle beasts frolic among themselves merrily.
Or, B: The much more reasonable and exhilarating scenario of the two; the two Tigers fight, leaving everyone with a feeling of satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment. (Hey, even the Lion King had fight scenes)!
Well, when Georgetown College comes to town to play Campbellsville U
niversity, one can almost certainly count on it being a game worth your dollar.
No matter the sport, no matter their records. Nothing matters when CU plays Georgetown.
The old saying of "Play big in big games" is far from just a quirky quote when the Tigers of Campbellsville line up to play the Tigers of Georgetown.
This rivalry game brings out the best in athletes, on both sides of the ball.
Some notable Campbellsville-Georgetown games in the past years include a mud-fest of a football game in Finley Stadium back on Oct. 24, 2009 (before the turf), when senior CU defensive back (at the time), Calvin Bini broke up a potential game-winning Georgetown pass in the end-zone, as the final seconds of the ballgame expired, sealing a 21-14 win over GC; the first in 12 years.
On April 17, 2011, Campbellsville University softball belted seven homeruns in a Senior Day doubleheader sweep over Georgetown at home. Former Tiger Jordan Cornett (a junior at the time) started the day off wita grand slam in the bottom of the first.
Five more Tigers would homer in the contest, propelling CU to a 10-2 Game 1 win. Of those five was senior Alex Jane Clemmons, who hit two homeruns in Game 1 and another to tie the contest in the eighth inning of Game 2, which quickly turned into a 4-3 win. Talk about going out with your boots on!
Perhaps the most recent CU-GC thriller, until this past month, was played on Jan. 28, 2012, when the Campbellsville University Men's Basketball Team aveng
ed a buzzer-beating loss to GC the month before to upset No. 4 Georgetown, 79-76, at home in front of a packed crowd in the Powell Athletic Center.
Sophomore (at the time), Justin Ennis led all scorers with 26 points; 21 of which came from three-point land (7 total). CU led by ten with under a minute to play, but GC would not give up; shooting 5-of-7 in the last minute, with the two misses coming in the final seconds of the game.
After a timeout, Georgetown brought the game within two on a three-point basket before senior (at the time), Reggie Smith knocked down a crucial free throw with just 10 seconds left, securing the CU Tiger victory.
"It seems like all the games with Georgetown are crazy ones, but this has to be among craziest that I can remember," said CU men's hoops coach Keith Adkins after the Jan. 28 game.
Crazy doesn't even start to describe what happened this pa
st month against Georgetown when CU soccer hosted GC on Sept. 26-27, at Citizens Bank Field in Finley Stadium; inking their respective places in the Rivalry Classics instantly.
Starting on Wednesday, Sept. 26, the Campbellsville University Women's Soccer Team defeated a 4-1 Georgetown team which was perfect in Mid-South Conference play heading into the game. CU shut out Georgetown for the first time in program history, 1-0, in two overtime periods.
That was the first win for CU in 21 meetings of the two schools.
The golden goal came with just 12.1 seconds left to play in the contest, when seniors Cassie Yannelli and Rebekah Carl hooked up on a corner kick, just a day before head coach Thom Jones' birthday.
"I told these girls that this would be the best birthday gift they could ever give to me," Jones said after the historic game.
"After four years, it's an honor to beat Georgetown on this field… I'm honored that I got to be on the end of the ball and bring us to victory for the first time," Carl said.
Following the precedent that women's team set on Wednesday, the men's team didn't disappoint the following day.
Thursday, Sept. 27 was known around Campbellsville as the "Pack the House" promotional night for Campbellsville University Soccer.
CU men's head coach Adam Preston challenged fans to set an attendance record of 1,000 fans at the match against Georgetown.
In the stands, 1,024 fans filled Finley Stadium to watch Campbellsville defeat Georgetown, 2-1 under the lights. Scoreless at halftime, Campbellsville took the lead in the 62nd minute when sophomore Gustav Carlsson headed a ball from junior Drew Sin into the back of the net.
Georgetown tied the game on their only shot of the evening with three minutes left to play, 1-1.
Redshirt freshman Andrew Nugent of Ipswich, England must have been in attendance the night before, because with just over a minute left to play, took the lead.
When a Pontus Yngve shot drew the Georgetown keeper out of the net, Nugent fired a bullet into the back of the net for his first career goal. Nugent and his team celebrated instantly, as the record-setting crowd in Finley Stadium erupted. CU held on for the victory.
"I hit it perfectly to be fair," Nugent said after the game.
"It went in the top corner, and the feeling was just unbelievable. Georgetown is a massive rivalry, and the feeling of scoring a goal against them as a winner is indescribable, especially with a crowd like that."
Louisa May Alcott, a 19th Century American author, most famous for her children's books, once said, "Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests."
Though Ms. Alcott was probably not an avid sports fan, her take on rivalry is one for the ages. After all, what's better than a win, if it's a win over Georgetown?
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Sunday, 27 November 2011
A different kind of truth
These short films document the process of making an artwork for 'A Graceful Death' a project of work by Antonia Rolls and others exploring how we deal with death and serious illness. I wrote about the most recent exhibition in Birmingham in a previous post.
Stuart's beloved wife Sue killed herself. After an extended period of grieving and recovery Stuart (an old and dear friend of mine from college days) expressed an interest in taking part in the Graceful Death project. He wanted very much to tells Sue's story, to speak about her struggles and decisions, her highs and lows. I will make a separate blog post with more of Sue's story. These films explore the process of making art about painful subjects. They begin with Stuart looking at Antonia's paintings. They explore issues of pain and honesty: sometimes real pain requires a different kind of truth.
The films have many technical and other failings (I have a lot to learn). But I think the subject rises above these irritations.
This final film shows the process of developing the pictures of Stuart and Sue (shown below at the Birmingham exhibition), looking at some of the considerations that went into each aspect.
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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons
I took this little video clip with my phone a month or two ago. It was a wonderfully sunny lat summer/early autumn day. My friend and I were enjoying an excellent lunch at Pallant House gallery. The gallery cafe was full of sun and people. There was a courtyard outside and I could sea these leaves dancing in the sunny breeze. They were moving to a different rhythm than the sounds I could hear of human chatter and eating and I felt that I could almost, but not quite, hear the sound of their music. Some lines from T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', half-remembered from schooldays, came to mind:
"For I have known them all already, known them all-
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room."
I have been reflecting this morning about how easy it is to spend time being busy, doing necessary and even useful stuff, and how it is easy in such circumstances for time to slip away and for bigger and more important things to be left undone. Still not making much progress with my assignment four work. Determined to take a little time out this week to play and explore.
Below is another little video clip from the summer. I was trying to capture the experience of
being in a summer meadow. I hope to make a better job of this next summer.
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Saturday, 19 November 2011
In memory of Kit
This is Kit, my friend Toni's much-loved aunt. Kit died earlier this week. She had been very unwell for some time but, as you can hopefully see from this picture, her spirit remained undimmed through it all. To give a sense of who Kit was, one of her nieces wrote that she "taught me how to fry eggs, curl my hair with rags, how to have a blatant disregard for what anyone thought of me and, most importantly, how to drink gin!"
I was fortunate enough to visit Kit with Toni just two weeks ago. While we were speaking I thought she looked so very lovely that I couldn't resist asking for permission to photograph her. And here is my tribute to Kit. No single picture can ever really capture the essence of a human being, but artists and photographers like me feel compelled to try.
In some ways it seems almost wrong to talk about how I processed the picture at this time, but doing so has brought forward a range of reflections and I want to set these out. For me it is very important to be respectful of people when I photograph them: I want to be true to what I see, but not unkind, and that is not always an easy balance. Because this is the final picture of Kit all those decisions seem more signifcant - it feels even more important than normal to try do her justice. This picture has changed in a number of ways from the raw original beyond simply losing its colour. I may post a colour version at some later stage, but removing colour allows one to concentrate on character and the play of light and shade, and that seemed right for this picture. The original was quite contrasty - harder than I remembered the scene - and I slightly reduced the clarity to soften contrast. I also used curves and some dodging and burning to further soften the picture and lighten the shadow side of Kit's face. I corrected a few little skin blemishes. Finally I sharpened only her eyes, and added a little tone as I think she would have liked that.
Kit was very ill and I don't want to pretend otherwise. But I really wanted to bring out the spirit and liveliness I saw, and have processed the picture to draw a little more attention to those things and a little less to the signs of illness, without removing them altogether.
So many choices are available to a photographer once a picture is taken. You can end up with a final image that has almost no relation to the scene the camera recorded, and I have no problems with that when it fits the photographer's vision. But when you want to make a fairly faithful record there are still subtle questions of what you emphasise and what is played down. Would a harder, more contrasty picture have been more accurate or faithful? Perhaps, but it wouldn't have been the picture I wanted to make.
RIP Kit.
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"Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean."
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean."
Lines from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Colerdige
I have been working, on and off, on PWDP assignment four for some time. I took a break for a month to finalise my APEL application. Having started again in earnest last week I have come to the conclusion that the work I had prepared just wasn't coming together and have decided to give up on this project and take a break before startng again. The assignment is quite straightforward and relatively open - I am required to produce eight landscape images with a linking theme. Four themes are suggested - earth, air, fire and water - but I can agree another with my tutor if I wish. There is no steer about how you interpret the theme: what I have done is quite literal but that isn't at all necessary and I may take a less literal approach to the final work.
I had chosen water and have in fact been collecting possible images for the assignment since I started PWDP. I was planning on a relatively abstract set, exploring the play of water, light and shade and particularly reflection, in part as a sort of metaphor for the photographic process. I've been through the usual selction routine, narrowing down the images to a potential set and so on. I have done some work to produce final versions - working with colour and shade and so on. The pictures in this blog post show where I had got to when I decided to call it a day.
Although some of the pictures work on different levels, the whole thing just doesn't quite hang together and, to be honest, doesn't really inspire me. It had begun to feel like yet another task to be got through. After some reflection I have decided I need a bit of a time out until I find a concept that inspires me more. I suspect that the fact that I knew deep down this wasn't working is partly why I have been putting it off and finding so many other things to do and write about. I have been very busy and pressured at work and in other areas of life also and that has added to the mix. I feel rather burnt-out and lacking in energy generally. So for the next few months the plan is to play a bit, work through the PWDP exercises I have been ignoring recently and see where that takes me.
I nearly always start a module with a range of ideas about what I will do for the assignment already in my mind and it is very unusual for me (and well out of my comfort zone) to have no real idea at all of what I am going to do. It is still open to me to take more better pictures of water and complete the assignment as I had planned. But I don't really want to do that. I think a setback like this can be very creative if you go with it (at least I hope so). I won't stop doing photography and blogging. I will just try not to push myself to come up with a new idea but to let the idea perhaps come out from my playing and other work. We will see. It is rather disappointing to give up at quite a late stage and having done quite a lot of work: inevitably this will delay completion of the module. But doing the degree is not for me primarily about getting a badge of achievement: it is much more important to me to do decent work that means something to me.
For now, here are the pictures I completed. The picture at the top feels to me like the most fully resolved one. Not sure how it will come across on screen but it works well as a subtle print. I like the combination of interesting detail and cloudy mystery in this picture. Others express different facets and moods more or less successfully.
|Killarney reeds
|Reeds reflected. This picture is upside down - I found it works better that way.
|Spring: the play of light and air
|Roiling waves
|Light on the water
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Labels: Ireland, Killarney, OCA, PWDP, PWDP assignment 4
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Exhibition: A Graceful Death
|"This is such an alone place to be" Sue and Stuart.
Some pictures from the opening of the Graceful Death exhibition in Birmingham. This is a project exploring the end of life and major illness, the work of my friend Antonia Rolls. You can read more about the project here. I contribute to the project by recording events, making portraits and prints of the individuals who contribute and providing other practical and moral support. The current exhibition is in the church of St Martin's in the Bullring in Birmingham and there is still time to visit if you are interested.
The work above is the most recent contribution to the project. Sue Pryde committed suicide. She left extensive notes explaing her decision and trying to ameliorate the pain that would be felt by her husband Stuart and close family and friends. Sue was quite a remarkable woman and Stuart is a remarkable man. Stuart has spent much of the last few years coming to terms with Sue's death and speaks and writes very profoundly about his experience and his love for Sue. You will be able to see some films of Stuart shortly. The pictures above show Stuart and Sue facing each other surrounded by favourite plants and with a sunny blue sky behind them. Between them are smaller pictures containing Sue's wedding day speech, her suicide note and some words from her journal.
A few portraits and detail shots below, showing of people who visited the exhibition on the opening day.
|Poetry workshop: Penny and guest
|Lost for words
This baby had the most wonderful range of expressions.
Entertaining a little boy while his parents view the exhibition.
Conversation pieces. I have been trying to resist the temptation to work in black and white recently, in part as a discipline to just work with what is there in front of me. But these two images just wanted to be bw.
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What if I don't know the framed size yet?
Please enter the actual size of the artwork, this is for the judges reference. If you know the framed size enter it now, if not please estimate and enter what you think the finished size will be. If your work is shortlisted you will be sent a proof sheet on which you can amend the size details.
Does work have to be framed?
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Can I enter a triptych or group of paintings?
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How many pieces are entered and chosen each year?
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Check out some of these killer shows in town this week.
Tuesday, February 4th
Aaron Lee Tasjan & Shelby Earl @ Grocery on Home
One of the most unique locations in Atlanta to observe music, GOH has hosted some mighty fine musicians in its few years of existence. Tuesday night Aaron Lee Tasjan treks into town from Nashville to offer up some of the best songs and stories you will ever hear. From rock to country he can play it all but may be at his best when it is just him and a guitar. Joining Aaron will be Shelby Earl another talented song writer out of the Pacific Northwest. Hot on the heels of a NPR performance she will be the perfect complement to Mr. Tasjan.
Some like to call Robbie Fulks' music country but I think that is an unfair assessment because it is just a small fraction of what he does. Never one to embrace the mainstream, Fulks has put together a solid career offering up his personal takes on life. HE is out touring on his latest record - Gone Away Backward – one of the best records of 2013. It should be a good night of music at Eddie's Attic.
Bring your ear plugs to the Tabernacle as Black Francis and crew set up shop in Atlanta for a night of tunes that will cover storied musical career. The Pixies never had a huge hit yet developed a massive legion of followers consisting of music lovers of all ages. Listen out for the new songs from the pair of EPs recently released; while they may not possess the raw power of classic Pixie tunes they are still pretty damn good. Get there early and pick out a good spot, I would suggest staying away from the speakers.
Wednesday, February 5th
Once again Eddie's Attic is the home to a damn fine singer-songwriter in Mr. Joe Pug. With a soft-spoken delivery and sparse accompaniment, Pug's music packs a mighty punch. He tells vibrant stories about life creating mental images in the listener's head. You can actually see what he sings. If you have never experienced Pug's music I highly suggest you do.
Thursday, February 6th
Ed Roland, Angie Aparo & David Ryan Harris @ Terminal West
Terminal West will be packed this Thursday night as three dudes from Atlanta bring packs of devout followers to the venue for a night of music. Ed Roland will be singing tunes from his latest musical incarnation the Sweet Tea Project as well as a few songs from his other band, Collective Soul. Angie Aparo's unique voice and songs about love, desperation and heartbreak will keep the crowd singing along. The soulful delivery of his emotional music will not only have the crowd singing along but I have seen it bring people to tears. David Ryan Harris' songwriting and guitar playing have found its way all over the musical stratosphere.
Friday, February 7th
When you mention indie rock Sebadoh has to be included in the conversation as one of the originators. They have followed no pattern doing everything their own damn way. Delivering lo-fi guitar driven rock and roll, Lou Barlow and accomplices set up shop at the EARL as they swing around the US of A jamming music from their latest release Defend Yourself. Don't worry I am sure there will be plenty of tasty classics sandwiched throughout the brilliant new material.
Saturday, February 8th
Stone Jonzon & Digigost @ Star Bar
An early matinee show at 5pm, local purveyors of rap Stone Jonzon will be at Star Bar joined by Digigost. Come listen to collection of tunes loaded with your daily supply of smooth soul, funk filled rhythms and thumping beats. Come support local music, grab a cold beverage and crank up Saturday a little bit early.
Tedo Stone, Great Peacock & the Quaildogs @ The EARL
The EARL is once again in the spotlight as three groups of musicians take the stage for some mighty fine tunes. Fuzzy guitars infused with a bit of twang lead the way as Tedo Stone creates a musical atmosphere that has a 60's psychedelic feel but is new and edgy. Great Peacock is one of the hottest up and coming bands in the Southeast. Their self-titled EP is one of the best releases of 2013 and when you hear their songs live you will be mesmerized. The Quaildogs consistently put on one of the best live shows you will ever see. The local band mixes bluegrass, roots, rock and folk to create a damn find sound. This should be one of the best shows of the week.
Sunday, February 9th
Patrick Sweany @ Terminal West
Close out the week with nasty guitar licks as Patrick Sweany wails the blues at Terminal West. Supporting Vanessa Carlton, Sweany's music is from the heart as he belts out tunes about life as a musician, loving someone and bad luck. On stage he reaches deep inside his soul and delivers one of the most powerful live performances you will ever witness. Get there early so you don't miss him, he goes on first.
There you are, a nice list of live music in Atlanta, no get your ass out there and support some great acts and venues.