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Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2013 by Matthew Harrison Tedford
Photographer Sean McFarland (MFA 2004) wasn't that kid who spent his youth in a darkroom, nor was he enrolled in art schools from an early age. "I actually didn't start making art until I was 21," he recalls. "And then, within six years, I'd graduated from CCA with my MFA."
Good thing he didn't miss his calling. Since then he's shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and he has won numerous national art prizes.
McFarland will be having a solo exhibition, Glass Mountains, at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco November 7 through December 21, 2013.
McFarland is well known for his landscape Polaroid photographs, but he works across the spectrum of light-sensitive materials: cyanotypes, gelatin silver prints, and archival pigment prints. In recent years he's been drawing, too. All of his photographs deal with artifice in some way.
By employing collage, double exposure, and light effects, he creates images that blur fantasy and reality, often without ever quite letting on which parts are the "deception" and which are "authentic." What you see is never what was there in front of the camera.
Who's Afraid of Larry Sultan?
McFarland clearly remembers the day he visited CCA as a prospective student. "I was scheduled to meet with Larry Sultan, and I was scared to death. I'd been going to school in the woods and had just started making art."
[Editor's note: McFarland got his undergraduate degree in computer information systems at Humboldt State University.]
"But after the introduction, the rest came easy. I thought to myself, yes, this is exactly where I need to be. This person is amazing."
His accelerated artistic maturation depended on his mentors and colleagues. "My knowledge of contemporary art was limited," he says of his first semester at CCA. But with the support of his teachers, and the community CCA connected him to, he grew immensely.
"It felt like I got both an undergraduate and a graduate education in the two years of my MFA. Mine wasn't the typical path, but in retrospect, it worked out perfectly."
McFarland also notes that it helped having such a great class of peers. His classmates included John Chiara, James Chronister, Greg Halpern, and Mitzi Pederson. All of them have been very successful and are showing at museums and galleries across the country.
Out on His Own
The September after he graduated, McFarland got his first solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco, which got him his first print review in Artforum. Later that year, he had another solo show at White Columns, New York's oldest alternative art space.
The director at White Columns, Matthew Higgs, was a former director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and former co-chair of CCA's MFA program; he had taken a liking to McFarland's work while they were at CCA. Higgs was also the one who introduced him to Jack Hanley.
"Stuff just started happening. I was working hard, but there was definitely someone watching over me."
An important step in McFarland's professional development was his continued association with some of his former professors. After graduating, he spent a few years working with Jim Goldberg and Larry Sultan in their studios. "That experience was totally invaluable. I gained not only technical skills, but also knowledge of how to work as a professional in the field."
Adept at navigating the nitty-gritty, he decided he was sufficiently prepared to venture out on his own. "At some point I told myself that I wasn't going to work for other people anymore," he recalls.
Awards and Accolades
Growing recognition of his work made this transition possible. The opportunity he calls "the real beginning" came in 2009, when he won the Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, which includes a $10,000 cash grant and a three-month exhibition at SF Camerawork.
That year he also won the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, which likewise came with a $10,000 cash award. In 2011 he was awarded a $25,000 Eureka Fellowship and had three works acquired by SFMOMA.
Continuing Education
Residencies have played an important role in the development of McFarland's career. "Having a residency is the most special thing that can happen to an artist. It's a tremendous validation when someone to says they like what you're making, you have good ideas, and they want to give you the time and space to make whatever you want."
In 2010 he was awarded a residency at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, and in 2011 another one at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. "Headlands is an incredible resource -- a place I knew was special and valuable from my first visit, which actually was a field trip for one of my CCA studio courses."
In summer 2013, McFarland was in the inaugural cohort of a new residency in Gualala, California, called Project 387. "I had a ton of space to work, and we'd have dinner with the family that owns the land. I got so much work done in two weeks. It was mind blowing!"
Entry into Teaching
These days, when McFarland isn't making his own work, he's passing along his skills to others. He got his start teaching Intro to Black and White Photography at CCA. He credits his former CCA teacher Susan Ciriclio, who is also a CCA alum (Photography 1971), for much of his development as an educator.
McFarland is now entering his fourth year teaching photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, at the undergrad and graduate levels. He still teaches beginning black and white, but he's also been creating his own courses, which are inspired in part by the professional skills and teaching he learned while working for Jim Goldberg and Larry Sultan.
And every summer for the last nine years, McFarland has returned to CCA to teach in the Pre-College Program. One of the other artists at Project 387 this past summer was one of his own former Pre-College students. That they would cross paths again in the woods of Northern California as professional peers speaks to what McFarland sees as one of CCA's greatest assets: the creation of community.
"CCA really helped me become a part of the arts community in San Francisco. It was an invaluable two years. I couldn't have had a better grad school experience."


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A top-notch, beautiful looking couples tape with a little bit o' anal showcases soon-to-be superstar Georgia Adair.
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Masterson returns in the final scene to wallop on Adair in the pool in this beautiful, well-lit scene. As a fine mist of water falls around them, these two trade oral pleasures and commence to fuckin' via doggie, cowgirl and missionary until the bodily fluids are one with each other. It's a fitting end to a top-notch, sex-tastic tape.

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By now everyone must know my obsession with polka dots. They somehow feel fresh and updated with every fun garment they cover. They never get old to me. How is that even possible — especially since I'm as fickle as can be? Well in this case, the dress is one of a kind and made from old deadstock materials (that in itself sold me). I love things that have a little history to them. And really, I couldn't not get it because it's my favorite style of a dress — and has side cutouts! I mean, come on! That's all a dress needs.


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The diptychs in this book were exhibited in the Artwave visual arts festival in Lewes, East Sussex, August-September 2010.
Our approach is different. The first thing you'll notice is you get two photographers. We work together on every shoot to create fresh, honest and real imagery for the commercial market. And we both have a career pedigree to make it work for you. With over a decade each of editorial photography experience, we now deliver a style of relaxed and authentic imagery to the commercial world. Catherine Benson knows first hand what national and international picture desks want. She worked for six years at The Guardian commissioning and choosing photos. Then at Reuters creating photo stories for newspapers and magazines around the world. Sarah Weal has ten years experience as an editorial photographer, whose clients include Vogue, Harpers & Queen, Rolling Stone, Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday Review, The Telegraph on Saturday Magazine, You Magazine, Observer Life, W Magazine, Surface, Le Monde and Management Today.
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The State of the College
Grinnell College President Raynard S. Kington presented a Scholars' Convocation on the State of the College.
Grinnell College President Raynard S. Kington presented a Scholars' Convocation on the State of the College.
President Raynard Kington is pleased to announce that Kate Walker will be the next vice president of finance and treasurer of Grinnell College. Walker is currently the assistant vice president of finance for Macalester College, and she will begin work at Grinnell on October 21, 2013.
Walker will succeed Grinnell Vice President and Treasurer Karen Voss, who has for some time been planning her retirement. Voss will assist with the orientation and transition process.
The role of the College's trustees is, and always has been, to assure the "great and lasting good" of Grinnell College. Through their commitment to institutional stewardship, bold financial investments, and prudent management, the trustees have allowed Grinnell to develop its special character as an institution that combines academic quality with a service mission. The College's rich history and strong endowment are a testament to its trustees' decisions, financial acumen, dedication, and faithful service.
When Grinnell College framed its charter in the Iowa Territory of the United States in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for the different professions and for the honorable discharge of the duties of life." The College pursues that mission by providing an education in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas. As a teaching and learning community, the College holds that knowledge is a good to be pursued both for its own sake and for the intellectual, moral, and physical well-being of individuals and of society at large.
The Investment Committee shall be responsible for maintaining a policy of prudent investment in stocks, bonds, real assets, non-marketable securities such as private placements and limited partnerships, and other similar financial instruments, interests and/or securities, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees.
Strategic planning is an ongoing process of evaluation, reflection, and improvement that helps the College set priorities, manage resources, define performance expectations, and ensure integrated actions.
Dr. Raynard S. Kington was appointed President of Grinnell College in August, 2010. Prior to coming to Grinnell, he served in a range of positions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) including NIH Principal Deputy Director and NIH Acting Director, NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and Acting Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Grinnell's 13th president will be introduced to the campus community on Wed., Feb. 17.
David White '90, chair of the Board of Trustees, sent an announcement to students, faculty, and staff about the pending announcement, which will be made at 12:05 p.m. Wednesday in Herrick Chapel. An informal reception with the newly named president is scheduled from 4:05 to 5:00 p.m. in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts rotunda Wednesday afternoon.


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An administrator will try to sell its assets, but many creditors, including those who had bitcoins with the exchange, might not get their money back.
After Mt. Gox went offline in February, its CEO, Mark Karpeles, said tens of thousands of bitcoins worth several hundred million dollars were unaccounted for.
Under the bankruptcy proceedings, Karpeles' liability will be investigated, Mt. Gox said in a statement.
Mt. Gox has suggested the bitcoins were stolen. The company has not been able to confirm the bitcoin balances of its users, although they can look at a balance on a website that is no guarantee for a claim, it said.
Bitcoins, created in 2009, are used for transactions across borders without third parties such as banks and have become a popular investment.
Mt. Gox said in a statement that a meeting for creditors will be held in July, and a report of its outcome will be shared on its website for those who can't attend.


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Gardasil's Adverse Effects...
According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as of June 30, 2008, more than 9700 adverse events have been reported since the vaccine was approved 2 years ago. Of these, 94% were classified as nonserious events and 6% as severe.Again, this is a tough pill to swallow. For starters, adverse reactions to Gardasil have been shown to kill and—we've talked about it numerous times—Gardasil is only effective against 4 of the 100 strains of HPV. Quite the risk for what, 4% protection!
Serious Adverse Events
Most Commonly Reported Events
- Nervous system disorders, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and headache
- Thromboembolic events
- Musculoskeletal and connective tissue problems
- Lymphatic system disorders
- Gastrointestinal problems
- General disorders and administration site conditions
- Immune system problems, including hypersensitivity reactions, bronchospasm, and urticaria
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With the popularity of cruise vacations still at the top of the wave in the world of travel, Royal Caribbean International (RCI) is currently building a third 'Oasis-class' ship and has ordered a fourth from ship-builder STX in Saint-Nazaire, France.
The still unnamed energy-saving ships, currently referred to as Oasis III and Oasis IV, are scheduled for delivery in 2016 and 2018. They will join the five-star Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas.
At the keel-laying ceremony of Oasis III Royal Caribbean chairman and CEO Richard Fain said "We are thrilled to announce the order of a fourth Oasis-class ship during the keel-laying milestone of the third. This announcement is also a testament to the men and women of STX France who have worked so hard and so cooperatively on Oasis III."
During the ship-yard event newly minted coins were placed under the keel and will stay in place until the end of the ship's construction. Once the ship is near to completion, the coins will be retrieved and presented to the ship's Captain and crew to be placed on board the ship. According to maritime tradition, the coins are said to bring luck to the ship during its construction process and then to its Captain and crew when she is sailing out at sea.
Because RCI is so environmentally 'green' oriented, Oasis III will be approximately 20 percent more energy efficient than Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas - which already are the most energy efficient cruise ships in the world. The fourth Oasis-class ship is expected to continue to build on that efficiency.
All of the Oasis-class ships feature a revolutionary design with a split superstructure and the cruise line's 'neighborhood' concept of seven distinct themed areas. Spanning 16 decks with 2,700 staterooms, the Oasis-class ships also introduced many 'firsts' at sea - an 82 foot-long zip line, a handcrafted carousel, the Rising Tide elevating bar, the AquaTheater high-diving performance venue, and the Central Park with more than 12,000 live trees and plants. Meet your friends in Central Park before embarking on a night of drinks, dinner, a show and dancing - and try your luck in the casino while you're out and about.
The Oasis Class also offers other features that can only be found on the Royal Caribbean Fleet, such as twin FlowRider surf simulators, cantilevered whirlpools, an ice-skating rink, the H2O Zone kids aqua park, and the Royal Promenade, an interior boulevard that stretches nearly the length of the ship and flanked by restaurants, lounges and boutiques. Everyone can enjoy their own style of cruising - from the kid-friendly attractions to the adult parks and lounges -Royal Caribbean truly has a neighborhood just for you.
While all this new construction is going on, the cruise line has also announced that the fully revitalized Legend of the Seas will begin year-round seasonal service in 2015-16. Legend will cruise from Singapore in the summer season, and then embark on sailings to idyllic settings in Australia and the South Pacific during the winter season from the cruise line's new home-port of Brisbane, Australia.
With Mariner of the Seas also sailing from Singapore in the winter season, Legend of the Seas' new summer season will mark the first time that the cruise line will offer year-round sailings from Singapore. Additionally, Legend of the Seas will join Explorer of the Seas, Voyager of the Seas and Radiance of the Seas to total a record deployment of four Royal Caribbean ships in Australia.
While making its home port in Singapore, Legend of the Seas will sail a variety of three- to 10-night round-trip itineraries throughout Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Vacationers also can choose among two consecutive 14-night itineraries in September 2015, a southbound sailing from Singapore to Perth (Fremantle), Australia, followed by a northbound return, both taking guests to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Western Australia.
Legend of the Seas will then transition from Singapore to its new home-port of Brisbane on an 18-night itinerary, departing in late November 2015. During the cruise line's first season sailing from the Australian city, vacationers can choose among a wide range of eight- to 11-night, round-trip itineraries that take them to Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Fiji in the South Pacific. The ship also will offer seven-night Queensland sailings which feature an overnight at Cairns. Additionally, a 14-night New Zealand itinerary will take guests to Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Wellington, Akaroa, and Dunedin, as well as cruise Dusky, Doubtful, and Milford sounds.
The refurbished Legend of the Seas offers passengers seven dining options, including the cruise line's signature Chops Grille steakhouse, Izumi Asian Cuisine, Park Café gourmet deli, and the exclusive Chef's Table, a multi-course dining and wine-pairing experience.
Every stateroom and bathroom have been renewed and new ship-wide technology enhancements, such as an oversize LED movie screen poolside, digital signage at elevator lobbies, flat-panel televisions in staterooms, and bow-to-stern WiFi service, give guests the most contemporary vacation experience at sea.
In 2013, among dozens of accolades, Royal Caribbean was given the Travel Weekly Reader's Choice Award for Best Cruise Line Overall -for the 11th consecutive year. Summing up, if you can't wait to cruise on board one of the upcoming Oasis-class ships, just contact your travel agent or go to www.royalcaribbean.com to pick and choose from a plethora of holidays on one of the award-winning ships in the RCI fleet.
Written by Don Church and Tony Schillaci, Out and Travelin'
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If we would hypothetically be exactly on the event horizon, we should see our own back, because of the circular motion of photons on the event horizon, right?
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The Radisson Hotel Metrodome will be the site of GLRM 2002. Rooms rates for the conference are $112/night single or double + $10/person for occupancy higher than double. To obtain this rate when making reservations via the internet, please use the promotional code: GLRM.
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Former Miami Dolphins' player Channing Crowder was on WQAM radio yesterday claiming that Ricky Williams used to smoke up the night before games. Shocking!
"Remember that Buffalo game, the 200-yard game?" Crowder said. "Smoked the night before. Talk to Ricky. He was doing it, that's what he did. Ricky has social anxiety and he smoked weed. Ricky's marijuana didn't affect the team until he got caught smoking ... Him smoking weed, sitting at his house smoking weed, didn't affect anybody but Ricky. He got high and then he sobered up and then he went to practice the next day."
The disclosure comes two days after The Marijuana Policy Project publicly called the NFL out on their pot policies. The MPP produced a billboard requesting that the league stop punishing players for using marijuana. Said billboard is located in front of Sports Authority Field at Mile High, and went up 24 hours before the Denver Broncos hosted the first NFL regular season game of the year.
As previously reported, pot use amongst NFL players isn't uncommon. Players are tested only once a year, and, ironically, testing begins on 4/20. Once they pass that test they're pretty much free to toke up until testing roles around again the next year.


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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
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to the U.S. Constitution
This great nation's founders had it exactly right when they sought to amend the U.S. Constitution with measures that establish certain individual liberties.
Let us note the first freedom spelled out in the First Amendment is that of religious liberty.
To that end, the Obama administration has demonstrated stunning tone deafness by requiring religiously based organizations to provide birth control advice to Americans.
The provisions are included in President Barack Obama's health care plan, which requires everyone — including faith-based institutions that oppose birth control — to provide these services.
Doesn't the Constitution — which everyone favors — explicitly forbid any government interference on matters of faith?
The decision, pushed by the president and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, has enraged Catholic clergy and laypeople. The Catholic Church regards contaception, as columnist Steve Chapman noted, "a violation of the natural order." While it is true many devout Catholics do use contraception, many do not, preferring instead to follow the teachings of their church — which they place above all other authority.
Isn't that their right as stated in the Constitution?
Asserting that the president has "declared war on religion" — as some Republican presidential candidates have stated — is a stretch.
This is, after all, an election year and candidates are bound to say just about anything in search of political advantage.
However, the Obama administration has erred by declaring religious organizations have to ignore their deeply held tenets for the sake of a government policy.


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There are two new Wii bundles! Even though that system's on the way out, Nintendo's still trying to make it appealing for the holiday 2012 shopping season with the Just Dance 4 and Skylanders Giants Wii bundles. Since we already talked up the Skylanders Giants bundle yesterday, let's focus on the Just Dance 4 bundle today.
The Just Dance 4 Wii bundle is the more basic of the two. It's very similar to the current $129.99 Wii bundle. It gives you the system, a game and the Wii Remote Plus. However, where the standard bundle includes Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort, this Just Dance 4 gives you… Just Dance 4.
Like the Skylanders Giants Wii bundle, the Just Dance 4 Wii bundle debuts on November 4, 2012. With it being $20 cheaper at $129.99, you'd think it's the better deal. It's actually not. Skylanders Giants is, since it comes with a special giants figure and the Skylanders Giants Starter Kit that's normally $75. But, you also have to take into account that while Skylanders isn't everybody's "thing," most people enjoy being goofy and silly with one of the Just Dance games.
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Crown Wine & Spirits is hosting a Gold Medal Wine Winners, Wine Tasting in three of their locations, Delray Beach (4/3), Boca Raton (4/6) and Coral Gables (4/5).
We are giving away two (2) tickets to each tasting. Enter the giveaway here. Three names will be drawn in a general random pick for two tickets to each tasting. We will draw the winning name on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The winner will be notified by phone and email.
All qualified submissions will be entered into a random drawing. There will be three (3) winners who will receive two (2) tickets to one (1) wine tasting. Each name will be drawn in a general random pick. We will draw the winning names on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The winners will be notified by email and a phone call.


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Research on sport and the Olympic Games has always been a popular area of enquiry for UK academics and publishers, but since the awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London in 2005, publication of books and articles on these subjects has burgeoned.
With the assistance of the publishers and authors concerned we are showcasing some key publications and giving you some taster content to whet your appetite.
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Author Alden Bell says that far from something to fear, a zombie apocalypse would be a thrilling new frontier
I first saw George Romero's Dawn of the Dead when I was a very young child, about ten years old. Of course I remember the grab-bag of gruesome slaughter – the screwdriver in the ear, the arm ripped off by the blood pressure machine, the zombie fingers digging greedily into a victim's torso. But what struck me as revelatory even beyond all the tendon ripping and viscera eversion was the wonder-inducing fantasy of living in a shopping mall. Yes, four survivors were ostensibly trapped and fighting for their lives in the fragile redoubt of a suburban mall – but, more to the point in my fevered young mind, they had this entire shopping mall all to themselves. It was the fulfillment of a childhood fantasy parallel to the one about being the only kid at Disneyland (no lines!), being left at home alone for the weekend (going to the bathroom with the door open!) or even being able to wander around your school when no one else was there (no class bells!). The shopping mall, once dezombified, was a place of joy, exploration, industry, creativity, potential. What would you do in such a place, so filled to the brim with the raw materials of culture-building? It was like being plopped down in the middle of a massive box of Lego.
A lot of the time, when we talk about the current cultural fascination of zombies stories, we like to point to the downturn of the Dow Jones, the terrorist acts that tug loose the seams of society, all the signs everywhere of apocalyptic end times and the dissolution of the modern world. We frequently think that the widespread interest in zombies has to do with fear. But I wonder. Whenever I see a zombie movie, what I see in the beleaguered protagonists is not fear so much as – oddly enough – hope. A desire to build rather than to destroy. Not just a dogged determination to stay alive, but the glisteny-eyed thrill of being presented with a blank canvas and invited to paint the blueprint of whatever ideal society your imagination can conjure. Zombie stories are not, I believe, the grim relics of a culture's nihilism; instead, I would argue, they have more to do with Fitzgerald's fascination with the "orgastic future" that always seems just around the corner – the "matter of infinite hope" that embodies not only the character of Gatsby but the American dream in general and, beyond that, the frontier mentality that might be found at any moment anywhere in the world.
Recently, Robert Kirkman's serial graphic novel The Walking Dead was adapted into a television series, and I remember seeing the poster advertising it everywhere. It was a simple shot, taken directly from the graphic novel itself: a lone man in a western hat, riding a horse down the middle of an empty freeway toward the ruins of a large city. The immediate impression of this image is that of desolation, the tiny figure of the man alone against the vast landscape that used to be brimming with life but is now a barren wilderness. But the image conjures another set of signifiers as well – those of western and frontier literature, stories of people weren't relegated to the wilderness but rather sought it out, who purposefully left one society behind in order to build a new one to their own unique specifications. It's hard for me to watch zombie movies and not think of homesteaders driven by the rugged excitement of building their life anew, constructing something fresh and lovely from the raw materials of the chaotic earth around them. Just as those four survivors did in Dawn of the Dead, using all the materials they could find to transform a commercial wilderness into a domestic space with all the comforts of home. Watch that movie again, and you'll be surprised at just how much screen time is given over to the logistics of securing the doors of the mall, of building walls, of settling into a living space – of homesteading.
See, it's possible that this is the taboo, unspoken fundamental principle of the apocalypse: destruction makes room for creation. Especially in America, a nation founded on the exploration of wilderness (the pursuit of frontier spaces where you can craft your own individual identity), a real problem emerges when there are no more wildernesses left to explore, when there are no more frontiers, when you are so desperate to climb the ladders placed before you that you don't even stop to think about where those ladders go or, much less, about the possibility of building ladders of your own. It's hard to be a good transcendentalist if you never leave the city – and it's hard to leave the city if all the wildernesses have been replaced by shopping malls.
And so maybe what is required is a good cleansing apocalypse to come and purge this shopping mall landscape. The edifices can stay – they were never really the problem in the first place. The real problem was all those people. They're the ones who kept you shackled to the old ways, who leashed you to cultural norms you never really had the time to rethink. Sure, you may experience the unfortunate byproduct of a plague of zombies, but they're slow-moving and have trouble climbing stairs. You can handle them. (Indeed, can you think of another kind of monster myth in which the hostile threat is so supremely manageable?)
Maybe this is also why most zombie stories begin after the zombie apocalypse or at least gloss over the details of how it began. These stories are not, actually, so interested in destruction and collapse. They are more interested in what happens next – they are fascinated by adaptability and reconstruction. They trill with the harmonies of possibility. Like the morning landscape after a nighttime snowfall. All the old world is erased. You look out the window and see a pure, gloriously blank canvas. You can't wait to put on your boots and tromp through it.
The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell is out now from Tor.
Images from The Walker Dead © TWD productions LLC Courtesy of AMC. Series 2 of The Walking Dead is showing on FX now.


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- Alabama is a host team for the 2012 2K Sports Classic benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project. The four host teams (which also includes Oregon State, Purdue and Villanova) will meet in Madison Square Garden on Nov. 15-16.
- Alabama will take on Oregon State on Thursday at 6 p.m. CT in the championship rounds of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Wounded Warrior Project in Madison Square Garden. The Tide will then play either Purdue or Villanova in Friday's final day.
- With the victory, Alabama went 2-0 as the host team of the event. It marks the third consecutive season that head coach Anthony Grant has guided his team to wins in the first two games of the season.
- Today's matchup against West Alabama marked the second time the two programs have met on the hardwood. The only other meeting came on Jan. 30, 1953, when the Crimson Tide captured an 89-28 victory.
- Sophomore Trevor Lacey continued his hot start to the season, finishing with a career-high 23 points in the contest, including knocking down 5-of-5 three-pointers. With his 15 points against South Dakota State, Lacey has scored in double figured five straight contests dating back to the 2011-12 season.
- Through his first two games of the 2012-13 season, Lacey has compiled 38 points, seven assists, six rebounds. He has connected on 13-of-20 shots from the floor and 7-of-10 shots from beyond the arc.
- Through its first two contests this season, Alabama has forced its opponents into a combined 38 turnovers. As a result, the Crimson Tide has a 46-23 advantage in points off turnovers on the year.


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Anton Jackson is an African-American man who seems harmless enough on the surface, but is a secret agent in the all-black Brotherhood, an entity that levels the playing field against the all-white establishment. Partnered with the sassy, stunning Sistah Girl, our hero must first undergo the ultimate attitude adjustment and trade in his 'fro and platforms for tennis sweaters and penny loafers. Once the transformation is complete, he's ready to take on the evil perpetrators of Operation Whitewash--Mr Feather, Penelope Snow aka White She Devil, and, ultimately, The Man.
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Clean water first, then computing, but make sure they're not laptops
By stephendavis on Sep 07, 2006
Many so-called IT evangelists seem to think that computing can solve all of the world's problems. Jonathan Schwartz is much more realistic.
In his blog earlier this week, he referred to a conference examining the impact of technology on developing nations. The argument was that the digital divide provides a barrier to development. And those without access can't participate.
Much more important for developing nations has to be more fundamental issues such as access to clean water, access to arable land, and access to world markets free from subsidy and trade barriers. In much of the developing world, mobile telephony provides the country's communications infrastructure rather than fixed line. In the same way that wireless has leapfrogged over fixed line telephony, these same countries need to move straight to thin client, lower cost computing - rather than fall into the trap of adopting standalone personal computing, each PC consuming large amounts of electricity and having unnecessary internally-installed processing power.
Maybe some of the ideas originally put forward by E F Schumpeter in 'Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered', first published in 1973 can now be applied to IT for developing countries. In his book, Schumpeter proposes a system of intermediate technology arguing that industrialised economies had developed advanced technologies that failed to efficiently meet the needs of the developing world.
More than perhaps any other machine invented, the PC running expensive proprietary software has evolved into a highly over-engineered system that remains idle, in terms of what it is designed for, virtually all of the time its switched on.


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LOS ANGELES - A man accused of domestic violence refused to come out of his Mid-City dwelling until a police SWAT team arrived at the scene, police said today.
Police were notified of the incident in the 6000 block of Alcott Street about 7:45 a.m. Sunday, said Lt. Steve Embrich of the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire Station.
The suspect told officers he had a gun, Embrich said.
"The suspect remained barricaded until the SWAT team arrived, then he came out and was arrested without further incident," the lieutenant said. "No gun was located." The suspect was booked on suspicion of domestic violence, he said.
An injured woman was treated at the scene, police said.


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Cutting The Ribbon On The Navy Yard's Newest ParkThe new urban environment is a sustainable, green, five-acre park named "Central Green."
City Takes Steps Turning Old, Abandoned Freight Train Lines Into Park LandNow some residents are trying to turn it into park space, and the first portion of that plan is moving forward.
Philadelphia Pop-up Park Makes List Of World's Best Urban BeachesWhat's more, the park is a temporary fixture and has only been open a little over a month.
Senate Panel Approves Smoke-Free Beach Bill In New JerseyThe measure on Monday was amended to allow towns to set aside up to 20 percent of a beach or park as a smoking area.
Downed Trees Due To Storm Cause Closure Of Cape May County Park, Zoo County officials have announced that the Cape May County Park and Zoo has been closed due to the weather.
Necropsy: 11 Animals Skinned In Pa. May Be FoxesEleven skinned animals dumped near a public park in northeastern Pennsylvania are now believed to be foxes, not puppies.
Timber Creek Park To Get Disc Golf CourseConstruction could begin any day now on a tournament quality, 18-hole disk golf course at Timber Creek Park in Gloucester Township, Camden County.
Top Spots In Philadelphia For A PicnicPack a basket, grab a blanket and some friends, and head outside for a picnic at one of Philadelphia's many green spaces.
Brotherly Love: NJ Neighbors Rebuild Beloved ParkA town is working together to raise money for a neighborhood park. In Moorestown, New Jersey, hundreds of residents are rolling up their sleeves to help.


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Putin divorce is final. Russia President Vladimir Putin's divorce has been confirmed by the Kremlin. Putin has divorced his wife of 30 years, Lyudmila, according to a BBC report on Wednesday.
Putin stated during a television appearance last year that the couple's decision to divorce was a joint decision. He said that they hardly see each other as each of them has their own life.
It is well known that the former wife does not like publicity. She said that the travel – specifically flying – was difficult for her. She also said that Vladimir Putin was completely drowned in his work.
Lyudmila's name has been removed from his official biography on the Kremlin website while now only mentioning the Putins' two daughters: Maria, 28, and Yekaterina, 27. However, her name still remains on another page of the Kremlin website without mention of the divorce.
According to the report, the divorce was civilized and the two would always remain close.
Six years ago, Putin denied rumors about him having secretly divorced and was planning to marry Alina Kabayeva, a former Olympic gymnast. Alina Kabayeva was one of the final six torchbearers at the opening of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February which stirred rumors regarding their possible relationship again.


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I've been wanting to try Sprouted Mung Beans because they're supposed to be easy to digest and nutrient-rich. I picked up Wild Rice and Forbidden Rice to add a little grain variety to my pantry. I'm totally quinoa girl, and eat it every day. I'll probably make soup with the Lite Coconut Milk.
Yes, I want to add variety, but I have to have my Quinoa. We've turned into big tea drinkers lately. I drink fancy tea when I start roaming around the kitchen because I'm bored, tired, or don't want to study anymore. I used to go for potato chips, now I have nice tea. The Mate Chai was picked out by Tim, and I picked out the Sencha Green Tea Powder with Acai and the Nighty Ginger Tea with peppermint and camomile. We found the tea at our favorite Asian grocery store. And we have a few more staples: tahini, raw cashews, and flax meal. I had to bring home my favorite cold drink, Kevita, coconut flavor.
Here's the tea aisle that I spend about 20 minutes hanging out in. It's a lot longer than the photo shows. An entire grocery store aisle of tea!


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