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Who Should Perform As-Built Surveys?
as-builts, bim, laser scanning, surveying
Good as-built surveys have the potential to be incredibly valuable to the owners and operators of infrastructure facilities and to all stakeholders in large infrastructure projects. When as-built surveys are obtained soon after project completion, or are actually updated during construction, and when they are completed to high standards of accuracy, they have multiple uses during the operations phase of large facilities. For example, as-built surveys can:
- Document the location of underground utilities and other "hidden" assets like piping and conduits that run underneath floors or behind walls. If the information is accurate and published effectively, a great deal of time and money will be saved when maintaining, repairing, and/or upgrading the facility.
- Serve as the basis of a GIS. This can be part of a system used onsite for functions like work order issuance or inventory management, or transferred to government agencies for use in their systems. The combination of good digital maps and databases has proven over and over to create value for owners.
- By serving as base maps and providing a place to capture knowledge gained during facility operation, as-built surveys help owners plan and design their next project or the next phase of the current facility.
- Serve as an assurance to owners and designers that design fidelity has been achieved, and that the completed project meets owner goals. In a sense, the completed as-built survey works together with contracts to increase clarity and utility for all project stakeholders.
These are just a few of many conceivable uses of good as-built surveys. Put simply, accurate and well-organized facility information will always be valuable to progressive facility owners and operators.
However, attaining quality as-built surveys isn't always easy under the current system, where contractors often do the survey work themselves to fulfill contract obligations. The reason is simple: obvious conflicts of interest.
How to Avoid the Conflicts
Contractors should not be the ones performing or subcontracting as-built surveys for a number of reasons. For one thing, since as-builts are always one of the last "punch list" items, they tend to be done in a hurry by people who have mentally moved on to the next project. And also, of course, one primary purpose of as-builts is to check on the work of the contractor and verify contract compliance; since as-builts are a form of inspection, they shouldn't be performed by the party whose work is being checked.
Instead, the subject of as-builts should be carefully addressed in contracts. They should be completed by a third-party specialist, usually a surveying firm, and ideally they should incorporate interim surveys that locate and verify features like underground piping that are usually covered during construction. Owners should work directly with as-built surveyors to avoid conflicts with contractors and subcontractors.
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It's an exciting time for the infrastructure industry; as amazing new technologies like laser scanning, building information modeling (BIM), and mobile computing become standard, all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle are being affected.
As-builts have the potential to be a key part of this infrastructure revolution. Consider the implications of just one new technology: laser scanning. If laser scanning is performed before, during and after construction, and published as 3D digital as-builts, multiple stakeholders will have powerful new insights into project impacts and optimization. Contractors will generate extremely precise earthwork quantities and projections, heavy equipment will be easily guided by machine control methods, underground assets will be located precisely and made part of clash detection routines, owners will virtually fit and rearrange large machines before installation, designers will conduct more sophisticated analysis of factors like sunlight and wind shear… and the list goes on.
The point is that many desirable results of new technology are applied, organized, and made available by as-built surveys.
All of the above advantages rely on effective, accurate survey work performed by survey professionals who know what they're doing. So once again, by embracing their role as expert measurers, surveyors have another opportunity to act as generators, aggregators, and brokers of critical infrastructure project information.
In today's infrastructure world, information is the most valuable commodity of all. Probably this has always been true, but in a digital reality, information—fast, accurate, organized information—is the very lifeblood of complex projects, and the rewards for information experts are significant.
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I would like to begin by saying that I am reacting to the title of the article, and I did not read the article. I do this from time to time to keep myself objective. I usually wait for a reply to my comment and then read the article so that I can identify bias, on my part, on the part of the commentors, and later assess the details, in an attempt to fully weigh in on those details.
Who should perform As-Built Surveys The first thing that comes to mind is "who should not perform them, and why?". I am of the opinion that it depends on what has been built when determining which kind of professional or team of professionals should be involved. I must certainly acknowledge that "As-Built Survey" contains the word "survey", which is a broad subject; one that cannot be fully demystified in a single statement like this: A surveyor should perform an "As-Built Survey" because it is a survey and it takes a surveyor to survey something. This is nonsense, of course, since a land surveyor may have no pertinent role at all in many "As-Built" Surveys. Perhaps only in a case where a land boundary or property line is relevant to the "As-Built Survey" would a land surveyor be the best candidate for such a survey. The word "survey" means many things, and it has applications beyond that of a surveyor who is licensed to practice only a fraction of the definition. I am licensed. I get it.
Scott D. Warner, R.L.S.
Thank you for the comment. I would love to learn more of your thought about the topic. I also believe that our profession has the needs to address this kind of issues.
As-built survey may also be called as-built documentation. I'm not trying to be particular on the term, rather, on how the data can be best captured for all subsequent usage.
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I have to admit, it is always encouraging to read future leaning articles showcasing the available latest technology and what appears, to most of us, to be the right and proper opportunities our profession pursue to establish an edge. To me, it's is an obvious leap. It's like basking in the glow of epiphany.
BUT…While I would like to buy the T-shirt espousing the concept. The simple truth and the issue that becomes the battle for us as professionals is the value to not only the "progressive" as marketed in the article, but the committed deference to a compressed schedule driven workflow encountered in pursuit of maintaining our profitability, our customers profitability and the lofty goal of actually utilizing and presenting all of our data to our clients in a more "wow" factor platform. All things are demanded yesterday and redlines will be fine…thanks for playing.
With that said, we circle around to the age old definitions of "As-Built", "Record-Survey" and when do the aforementioned transition to the always useful "Existing Conditions Survey". (This is rhetorical, by the way.)
As for who should perform them? I believe as you do that regardless of what you consider this type of survey it exists for purposes of engineering confirmation and is a form of inspection used to release funds to the contractor, among other things. Therefore the contractor has no business performing said operations, in my opinion.
Sadly and most sobering, regardless of your ethical bend on this subject the industry has been forced to make do with less, perform more work on tighter margins than ever before and survey seems, to these folks, the first place ripe for the slashing.
Spend a dollar now or spend a hundred when Survey has to return to the site.
As-Builts or Record drawings required by law to ensure engineering and architectual projects were constructed to function as designed and permited. They must be signed and sealed by a licensed surveyor in my state anyway.
There is also a seperate important need to properly keep track of the as-built location and description of all the same work in case modifications or repairs are needed. While qualified people still need to be used a license is not required. Our facilities department has it's own specialized software and staff for keeping track of all our buildings and does the job very well.
I do wish utilities were able to provide good GIS data to aid in the design and construction of road projects, but with existing tech that problem will hopefully fix itself.

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It's funny how five years can seem like such an insignificant amount of time - yet in essence the 2,100-odd (I don't work with numbers for a reason) days that pass will inevitably and often inexplicably change the world around you.
2007 saw the birth of the iconic Halo 3, The Orange Box, and the title that, over time, would unidentifiably transform the modern gaming landscape: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (along with the death of my social life). Of course I couldn't forget to note the brilliant array of single player games on offer such as BioShock, Assassin's Creed, Unchartered: Drake's Fortune and Mass Effect.
Fast-track to 2012, Halo 4 is ready for release in the later stage of the year, as are BioShock Infinite, Assassin's Creed III and Diablo III amongst a vast selection of other games. Mass Effect 3 would launch in March to an overwhelmingly favourable reception, unfortunately shadowed by the outcry that would ensue due to its dubious ending. Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Unchartered 3: Drake's Deception and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are examples of several releases that have allowed their respective franchises to enjoy steady success in 2012 from their late-2011 launches.
But what's changed? Aside from the obvious technological enhancements that are bound to occur, perhaps the biggest transformation we've seen has been that of gamers themselves. In 2007, whilst always extremely popular, gaming still possessed the "geeky" or "nerdy" social stigma that has long been attached to those with an interest in video games, no matter how much time they spend playing them.
In 2012, however, it appears that the proverbial fourth wall has been broken. With the release of the Wii in 2006, Nintendo successfully targeted and tapped into a market that previously had no interest or use for video games. By targeting families, adults and children, Nintendo effectively forged a relationship with millions of "casual gamers", portraying video games in a new, healthy and positive light. As of 2008, the Wii Series had sold 190.71 million copies, already surpassing the likes of The Sims and Grand Theft Auto.
It can be said that the mainstream 'acceptance' of video gaming has emanated from the staggering and ever-burgeoning success of the Call of Duty series. With the franchise initially birthed in 2003, it was not until the success of the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare that the games began to build a cult following that would soon turn into a worldwide phenomenon.
With each game in the series continually outselling the other without fail each year, the juggernaut that is Call of Duty shows no signs of slowing. Modern Warfare 3 grossed $400 million dollars in its first 24 hours on sale, selling 6.5 million copies in the US and UK alone, making it the highest-selling game and entertainment launch of all time.
Of course, it wouldn't be an opinion piece regarding the franchise without mention of the prepubescent-dominated market. The developers of the game have found a formula that works, unfortunately at the cost of the overall gaming experience.
People want to be in control from the get go -- to be able to pick up a controller or keyboard and mouse and instantly play like a professional. Developers have realised this, and now seemingly cater for the impatient tweens who can't handle the sounds of anything remotely challenging. Whilst it's all well and good for the publishers who could almost literally shower in money, it's not so great for the rest of us who have to put up with constant high-pitched whining and screaming.
So where to now? The next-generation of consoles and video games is around the corner, with the strangely-named Wii-U the first console out of the starting blocks, expected for release in late 2012. It will be interesting to see the direction Satoru Iwata and co. decide to take the Wii-U in, and whether it'll spur a push for Microsoft and Sony to implement their next-generation consoles sooner than expected.
Inevitably, five years from now the worldwide gaming scene will have irrevocably changed, but will it transform to the same extent that we've seen over the last five years? Only time will tell.
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz today chaired the regular weekly meeting of
the Council of Ministers and expressed satisfaction at the level of implementation of the Saudi-Yemeni
border treaty, saying that the follow-up committees have been working with team spirit, and that full
understanding and complete cooperation prevail, reflecting the firm fraternal relations that exist between
the two countries.
Minister of Interior Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz briefed the cabinet on the dangers being faced by Saudi
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last ten years, 35,037 people have been killed and 284,869 seriously injured in traffic accidents, a rate of
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The professional development needs of teachers and administrators related to iPad use varies from classroom to classroom, school to school. Our goal is to differentiate training around the 5 Stages of Teacher Development.
Throughout the months of August, September and October, a variety of online and traditional (face-to-face) training opportunities will enable teachers to quickly move through the Entry and Adoption stages of teacher development. Traditional training opportunities will target specific levels in the teacher development continuum (Entry or Adoption), while online opportunities will empower teachers to advance to the Adaptation stage and beyond.
The 2012 Student Engagement Conference, scheduled for October 26th at South Pointe High School, is the target date to move all teachers and administrators through the entry and adoption stages. In addition to concurrent sessions designed to reinforce skill sets and ensure mastery at these stages, this year's conference with showcase best practices in the use of iPads to supplement, rethink, and systematically change curriculum and teaching. This includes a much anticipated keynote and concurrent session led by Mr. Alan November, futurist and CEO of November Learning!
From October 26th through the end of the current school year, all district sponsored trainings (Common Core, Literacy and Math Guide training, Instructional Technology training, leadership events, etc.) will incorporate the iPad as an essential instructional tool in the design and delivery of quality student work, including ways to use one iPad, or a limited number of mobile devices, in the classroom.
2. What are we talking about in terms of a time commitment?
For those familiar with the iPad and comfortable in the use of existing technologies, moving beyond the entry and adoption stages will occur very quickly. For those less familiar or comfortable with existing technologies, the necessity of traditional (face-to-face) workshops may result in a greater commitment of time.
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It is our goal to have iPads in the hands of teachers by the start of the school year. Availability and funding issues could necessitate a later launch, but we do not anticipate delays at this time.
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Lost Planet 3 is nearly here, and we have Capcom's latest video on the game dubbed "Frozen To Death" for your viewing pleasure, below.
The video shows what happens to the human body when you're in a subzero environment. The ice planet of E.D.N. 3 has an average temperature of minus 120C, which is, well, extremely cold. Freezing to death begins quite quickly, with your normal body temperature of 37C only needing to drop a few degrees for a quick death to happen.
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Nokia launches Mobile Millennium public pilot with the goal of reducing traffic congestion
Nokia announced today the release of Mobile Millennium, a public pilot for US mobile users who own GPS-enabled handsets.
Mobile Millennium has the role of gathering and analyzing traffic information by using GPS phones (like Nokia N96, Nokia E71). Nokia says that, by leveraging on real-time data received from GPS phones, traffic problems can be reduced and drivers can make better decisions, like taking alternative routes.
Since users carry their GPS cell phones almost everywhere, traffic flow data can be easily expanded to include not only highways, but also city side streets and rural roads, as well as any other roadway where mobile network coverage is available.
In order to better analyze the traffic system, Nokia Research Center is collaborating with NAVTEQ, UC Berkeley's California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
To join the Mobile Millennium initiative you don't necessarily have to own a Nokia GPS handset, as the Mobile Millennium application can be used on lots of other GPS phones, as long as they support Java apps and you have an unlimited data plan.
The Mobile Millennium pilot allows up to 10,000 members to participate and it will end after 6 months. It's worth mentioning that any data you transmit after joining the pilot will be stripped of individual details, hence the user generated content is anonymous.
To register and download the Mobile Millennium application to your phone, you should visit the project's website. The app is not available for the moment, but it will be, later on today.


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|Blazing hot second half lifts UI
MOSOCW, Idaho - With the help of a 60-percent second-half shooting performance and four double-digit scorers, the Idaho women's basketball team did something it hadn't done since 2004 - beat the Montana Lady Griz. The Vandals went on a 19-7 extended run early in the second half to erase a 10-point deficit on their way to a 69-56 win over Montana.
Senior Yinka Olorunnife tallied her fifth double-double of the season with 12 points and 18 rebounds, while senior Rachele Kloke came off the bench for the first time this season, and led all scorers with 21 points and added three rebounds, two assists, two blocks and a steal without turning the ball over in 34 minutes of play.
"It definitely boosts my confidence to know that my jump shot is still there even though it's been kind of struggling," Kloke said.
Junior Keri Arendse knocked down 5-of-9 shots from the field including 3-of-6 from 3-point distance to finish with 15 points for Idaho, while senior Derisa Taleni had 12 points, four assists and three rebounds for Idaho.
The Vandals ended a five-game losing streak to Montana, and improve to 6-2 on the season. The Lady Griz fall to 3-6 on the year with the loss.
Montana led by as many as eight points in the first half, as Idaho had eight first-half turnovers and shot just 37.9 percent from the field (11-of-29), as the Lady Griz took a 36-28 lead into the break.
"That first half was really slow, it was just kind of like watching sand through an hour glass," Idaho coach Jon Newlee said. "We had to pick up the defense, we had to pick up the offense, and play faster, and I thought we did that. As soon as we started pressuring the ball and bringing it up the court looking for fast breaks, it picked up the speed of the game."
Montana took its largest lead of the game at 38-28 just nine seconds into the second half before the Vandals turned things around. After their 19-7 run to take a two-point lead, the Vandals steadily added to the lead with strong shooting and defense.
"We have so few home games this year, I thought it was huge to go out and hold the home court tonight," Newlee said. "That second half was more like Vandal basketball."
The Vandals hit 15-of-25 second half shots and shot 48.1 percent (26-of-54) for the game, connecting on 7-of-19 3-pointers. Idaho held a 37-35 edge on the glass and owned a 26-12 advantage in points in the paint.
"We knew they were going to be playing zone and we knew we would be getting looks off the zone," Newlee said. "It's just a matter of getting the feet set and knocking the shot down. And that's exactly what we did."
Montana shot 34.9 percent (22-of-63) from the field and hit just 6-of-25 (.240) 3-point attempts.
The Vandals return to the road for the second five-game road trip of the season as they face Seattle University of Dec. 11. Idaho will visit Gonzaga on Dec. 17, Saint Mary's on Dec. 23 and Portland on Dec. 30 before opening Western Athletic Conference play at Nevada on Jan. 6. The Vandals return to Moscow on Jan. 10 to take on Fresno State.


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by Jerome du Bois
You don't have to be a Christian to be offended by OnePlace, a venue south of Roosevelt Row which hosts rock bands, art exhibitions, and worship services --sometimes simultaneously-- all in the name of Jesus Christ. Phoenix New Times writer Niki D'Andrea touts this place as a hip, "cutting-edge" refuge for "seekers" dissatisfied with traditional Christian churches. But what I see is a pathetic crew of preacher wannabes desperately catering to the infantile sensibilities of a bunch of spoiled brats.
According to OnePlace's 30-year-old pastor Rob Tarr,
"We're moving over to worshiping in new ways. We worship a lot through our art. Art draws artists, so we draw those people in. The same with music."
One example of the "art":
Tonight, those walls are hung with photographer Monica Vega's "Women With Guns" series, which features hot babes pointing the barrels of various guns directly at the camera lens.
And for the Easter "Stations of the Cross" exhibition:
One of the largest paintings in the exhibition, Jeremiah Sazdanoff's Jesus Meets His Mother, depicts images of Christ and Mary behind a swarm of words and sentences, including "Crucify that m*ther f*cker." The bright yellow "f*ck" is the most prominent part of the painting. Even the "-er" is a more docile blue. [Censorship added.]
These pieces fit right in with the misogyny and snickering adolescent obscenity which occupy the shrunken minds and twisted hearts of the artists in the downtown Phoenix arts district. People who want to promote the worst within and among us. But what would Jesus do if confronted with this crap? Is that even a difficult question? If you think so, you might as well stop reading right now; I'm not writing this for you; I don't give a tinker's damn about you. Beat it.
Okay then, anyone left might ask, who are you writing for? That is a good question, actually. I've read D'Andrea's cover story through about six times since last Thursday, and it makes me angry every time. But why? I haven't been a Christian for many years, and I don't believe Jesus was God Incarnate. Could it be that I'm worried about the "cool kids" being misled by Rob Tarr, Adam Brooks, and Mandi McKinney? Hell, no. If those feckless followers can't tell the difference between human decency and human degradation, that's on them; they're already halfway down the tubes, and I'm not about to interrupt their slide to the seamy side.
Maybe I want to persuade the pastor and staff members of the errors of their ways? Fat chance. These bozos will trash any and all standards to keep their "ministry" going, to keep the "cool kids" coming, and, above all, to not offend them with the real challenges of life. I'm not writing to persuade anyone of anything.
Well, then, why bother?
The answer is, to witness for Jesus. Not Jesus as Christ, or Lord, or God, but my friend Jesus --the man with the burning heart, overwhelmed by his love for people, who passionately pleaded for us to seek the best within us. I just can't stand by silently and let these bastards try to drag him into their disingenuous and self-centered drama.
OnePlace "staffer" Adam Brooks teaches at Deer Valley High School. He's also pursuing a Master's of Divinity at Phoenix Seminary. This is how he talks:
"When we first started, there was a lot of opposition. There were a lot of people who talked a lot of stuff. They were like, Who are these people? They're trying to change things.'
"People were like, Oh, we can't do that, that's not a church. You guys are going to Hell,'" Brooks says. "The nicest way to put it is, we just silently gave them the middle finger and went on. We'll keep doing what we're doing."
I'm going, like, whoa, this peckerhead is eloquence personified. More:
"A lot of us are just sick of churches that make you follow these certain requirements, or you're just not welcome," Brooks says. "What kind of load of shit is that?''
And more:
"They're people who are close to their traditions," Brooks says. "We're saying, Screw tradition.'"
Spoken like a true Christian, eh?
And just what makes OnePlace so distinctively different from those old, stodgy, ossified traditional churches?
D'Andrea writes:
Smoke cigarettes? That's okay. Gay? Welcome. Got tattoos and piercings? So does everybody else. Having sex out of wedlock? Whatever.
Don't even believe in God? That's okay, dude. Hang out and catch a punk rock show or peruse the art, anyway.
"Peruse"? Sheesh. Anyway, there are a few items missing from this list, and the tells are in these omissions. What about those who smoke weed, smoke crack, snort coke, shoot heroin, or ruin themselves with crystal meth? Why does D'Andrea ignore these behaviors? Is D'Andrea asking us to believe these drugs play no role in the social profiles of Roosevelt Row and Grand Avenue? I sure don't believe it, though it's a situation devoutly to be wished.
Maybe OnePlace's mighty downtown ministry, now almost seven months old, has cleaned up the place in record time. But if so, why don't they brag about it? There's not one word in D'Andrea's article about illegal drug abuse.
And not many words about Jesus, either. Instead, D'Andrea spends over half the article writing about the music. Now, I've danced before the Lord, singing in tongues, with the best and the rest, but I never made the mistake of thinking that the music was the core of the Christian walk. The walk itself was the core.
Brooks says:
"Jesus went where there was the most need, where he could make the most difference. And that's what we're trying to do."
But I don't see much difference between OnePlace and, say, Modified or Paper Heart or Trunk Space. Everybody wants to pick up their guitar and play, just like yesterday, and yesterday, and yesterday. (Now appearing: The Droning Clones.)
Listen, here's the key to OnePlace, in Brooks's words:
"We want people to feel like they can come here and not feel judged, not feel depressed, not feel talked about -- to feel safe. Deep down safe."
What thin-skinned babies these congregants be! Jesus judged people left and right and up and down. And he "depressed" multitudes because they didn't want to change their ways, rise above themselves, and better themselves. And he sure was talked about, wasn't he? both behind his back and before his face. And he stood up to them all. Why? Because after a long and wrenching struggle, he found out who he was. And it left him anything but safe. Life isn't safe. It isn't about coddling the weak. But that is the core of OnePlace.
After Jesus stepped between Magdalene and the flying stones, she changed her ways. She did what she did before Love came to town. But when Love came to town, she rose above her self-humiliation and grew into a stand-up woman.
There are no such testimonies in D'Andrea's article.
In the ten-plus years I was a Christian, in about a half-dozen churches, everybody had a testimony, and was eager to share it. You couldn't shut them up about it. Born-agains are anything but shy.
In D'Andrea's article we read a lot of name-dropping of local musicians, about Mandi McKinney's idiotic bookings of hardcore bands (in a church?!), and quotes of half-baked lyrics --keeping your heart upon the altar is just the beginning, dude-- but in all of Rob Tarr's and Adam Brooks's chin music, they can't present a single person whose life has been transformed by their ministry. It's as if Jesus --whether God or human-- was never there, no matter how long or often they proclaim he's "in the house."
I think he's elsewhere, far removed from OnePlace.
Travel well, my friend. And watch your back.
by Jerome du Bois
Fidel Castro, besides being one of the most evil human beings ever to disgrace this planet, is also probably the most loquacious. According to Brian Latell in After Fidel:
It is no exaggeration to say that he has spoken more words on the public record than any political leader in history. Probably no other human in any line of work has ever been recorded uttering such avalanches of words.
And most of this logorrhea is stultifyingly pedestrian:
It is also notable that in those billions of spoken words, Fidel will not be remembered for any single galvanizing performance or sparkling passage that is uniquely his own. Unlike many great orators he has hoped to emulate, nothing he has uttered in public has reverberated over time as a defining rhetorical moment. His oratory is bereft of adornment, memorable phrases, aphorisms, or allusions. A majority of the speeches have been apallingly boring recitations of facts and figures, often going on self-indulgently for hours.
All of Fidel's public broadcasts have been intercepted, translated, and transcribed by the Federal Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), "America's oldest civilian foreign intelligence organization." And Latell, the CIA's top Cuban analyst for more than twenty-five years, has read and studied every one, poor fellow.
Cuban intelligence knows about FBIS's work, and vice versa, resulting in a curious relationship.
A shadow-boxing game of sorts developed between Fidel and the American intelligence analysts perusing his words for clues and indicators. Often his most attentive audience was not the gathered Cuban bureaucrats or the crowd arrayed right before him wherever he was speaking, but us, the anonymous American intelligence analysts working in distant cubicles, parsing his every sentence . . . He liked the challenge of communicating regularly with the Cuban masses while not giving away any secrets or making mistakes that could be used against him. This may help to explain his extraordinary success -- with only a few really damaging exceptions through the years -- at avoiding slips of the tongue and unconsidered outbursts in his public appearances.
One of these exceptions offers a tantalizing glimpse into Fidel's twisted psyche, and involves Latell himself. And mangoes.
In late 1989,
Fidel visited the Salvador Allende hospital in Havana, and spoke to a small audience in an outdoor courtyard. Mango trees were growing there, and as he droned on about the revolution's accomplishments in health care, he digressed. The trees somehow distracted and irritated him. The FBIS transcript had it all word for word: "Why is this mango tree here? This mango tree does not belong in this patio. It must be cut down"
It was not a typical performance. Fidel is not given to public soliloquies, and does not often digress so abruptly. The aside was a rare nugget in the billions of words he had spoken on the record that was revealing of character and personality flaws. A part of his arbitrary leadership style was in full view.
Then, in February 1990, Brian Latell gave a speech about Fidel at the University of Miami, wherein he referred to the mango tree incident. By then he was well-known to Cuban intelligence, and he was certain that his words would find their way to Fidel. "There could be no doubt" [Latell said] "that the mango tree was promptly cut down, despite whatever pleasures it may have provided the patients."
It was an all-too-typical example, I said, of Fidel's micromanagerial style when even the most obscure and irrelevant matters suddenly, and for no apparent reason, become important to him. It was Fidel at his autocratic worst. It reflected pettiness, obduracy, total self-absorption, disregard for everyone. Incredibly, a mango tree had become an issue of state.
A year went by. Fidel kept up his chinwagging, and Latell kept doggedly reading. And in February 1991, droning on about accomplishments in health care and medicine at a provincial assembly in Havana, Fidel cited the Allende hospital as "a very good institution . . . the pride of the capital."
Then, the FBIS transcribers noted, he paused. His mention of the Allende hospital had triggered the memory of my criticisms of him in Miami. In an angry outburst, he reacted, defending what he had done. I had been right. The mango tree was cut down. Except it was actually a small grove of trees that he had destroyed. As if speaking only to himself and to me, he complained: "What came out in that meeting about the Salvador Allende hospital was incredible. The fences were broken because of the construction work which, who knows how many years had been going on. There was a mango grove. That was the only time in my life that I ordered to clean, to bulldoze a mango grove.
The mango grove was inside the hospital. The kids jumped everywhere. In fact they did not have to jump because there was no fence and they got in there to eat the mangoes. Everyone ate mangoes there. Even the patients ate the mangoes. The place was full of flies and there was a terrible lack of hygiene."
He concluded by emphasizing, "There is a beautiful park there now."
But the mangoes are gone.
There is plenty of vicious irony to go around here. I'll pick out just two points. First, mangoes are pretty much the national fruit of Cuba, and it is characteristic of Castro to be completely indifferent to the people's emotional attachment to them. Second, this incident occured during the Special Period of Peace, after the collapsing Soviet Union withdrew its billions of dollars of yearly subsidies to the Island. If there was ever a time when the people needed every bite of food they could find, this was it. But once again, Castro didn't care.
Compared to Castro's other depredations, the mango tree incident is petty, isn't it? But it does reflect his shrivelled soul: petty, barbarous, and cruel. Every little bit hurts.
by Jerome du Bois
We're getting a lot of traffic from my latest posting on art and Cuba, "Cruelty in Color." I don't know why --our critics never contact us-- but it provides me with the opportunity to remind readers that this is the eighth posting on the subject, spanning more than two years. Here are the other seven, in order of appearance:
#1. Two Cubans: In Order Not To Forget
#3. Toirac The Tame And The Tiempos Nuevos Series
#4. Over His Dead Body: Kathleen Vanesian, Neo-Colonialist
#5. Angel Delgado's Transgression
#6. The Prisons Behind Lisa Sette Gallery
#7. Sit Down, Don't Be Rockin' Kcho's Boat
And the idiocy continues. Last week George Moneo over at Babalu Blog posted a colloquy he had with the Victoria & Albert Museum about their Che / Korda photograph exhibit. The most disingenuous line from the curator:
from the V&A's curatorial standpoint, the interest lies purely in a particular design phenomenon.
As if they're talking about some corporate logo instead of a heartless murderer.
by Jerome du Bois
Pseudo-art writer Wynter Holden describes a painting by pseudo-artist Adam Allred:
Take Adam Allred's mixed-media piece Barefoot and Patriotic, for example. A fat, balding man wearing a gas mask and a tight, white tank top perches on his front lawn, watering the concrete driveway where his trusty pickup is parked. The cascading stream from the hose drips down beneath the main image, where book illustrations of missile launcher instructions and injured soldiers peer through a thin veil of muddy brown. A pile of skulls caked with blood is the foundation of the painting.
It's a powerful piece.
The smoky pastel tones and thick impasto technique of the painting are reminiscent of local artist Colin Chillag's cityscapes, but Allred's message about Phoenix is far more insidious. We post American flags on our pink stucco houses like badges of honor at the same time we're becoming obese, wasting water and sending friends and relatives to die so that we can keep our redneck American dream. Yee-haw.
Holden enjoys anti-Americanism; its simplistic and submental notions bypass any critical thinking. From a mini-review, in the same issue of New Times, of the next crew of clones coming out of ASU's MFA program:
"Annual Summer Juried Exhibition" at ASU Harry Wood Gallery: This year's crop of MFA hopefuls shows a surprising awareness of domestic issues including water conservation, racial profiling and changing family values. Look for tongue-in-cheek political lampoons, like Exhibitions Class Award winner Corie J. Cole's ceramic caricatures of cowboy Bush and his Elmer Fudd sidekick. The well-modeled figures grin over the carcass of a white elephant, gold blood dripping from two bullet holes in its head. In R. Eric McMaster's Lawn Ornament, a molded plastic businessman perches in Astroturf. He wears a tight suit and tie, and flashes the frozen grin of a good corporate drone. These young artists can't predict the future, but they certainly seem to know what awaits them in the real world
Cole and McMaster, who are too young to know much at all about the real world, are two years late for the anti-American, grossly-misnamed "Democracy in America" show that Marilyn Zeitlin, John Spiak, and Heather Lineberry tried to fob off on the public during election year 2004. They would have fit right in there.
By the way, on the same page as the mini-review, the paper runs an ad about its art listings with the heading "More Creativity Than Dubya's Vocabulary." Oh, ouch. These losers sure know how to stay stuck on stupid.
Back to Allred. Let's try to wedge ourselves into his tiny brain for a moment, the better to understand this clutter of clichés.
It's easy to see the influence of his anti-American teachers and professors, and his own uncritical adoption of their dispositions. They doled out the predigested pap, he swallowed it, and Wynter Holden regurgitated it. Why think for yourself when it's already been done for you? Because thinking is difficult, and the complexities and subtleties of real life are far beyond his mental capacities. Better to stick with the cartoon outlines he has already assimilated.
So there he is in front of a blank canvas with not one original thought in his head. Typical day. What to do, what to do? He reaches into the shallow drawer of his mind and chooses a few snapshots of stupidity, old and faded from overexposure. But he thinks, Whoa! This is a powerful idea. This is new. This will truly expose all those fat white redneck pickup dudes.
So, to own your own home, your own car, and to take care of both, is somehow wrong. To recognize that these achievements are only possible under the aegis of American law, symbolized by the flag, is somehow wrong. And of course only rednecks --a word as odious as nigger-- are fat. Really? What about anti-American artists like Jon Haddock and Heidi Hesse? They're porky. Oh, but they trash this great country, so they get to keep stuffing their faces. And complex social dynamics like water conservation and war can be blamed on the suburbanite.
Well, hell, turnabout is fair play, idnit?
I won't even try to top Catherine King's wicked portrait of Blue McCool --the best parody name ever, followed closely by sloan23 and JenJusJen-- so I'll just draw a quick composite sketch of the kind of people who turn out this kind of crap.
You emerge from the Hamberger school with your BFA ticket in hand, and straw men stuffed in your head. It's official: you're an artist. You must be. All your teachers, all your life, have told you how talented you are; it's how they justify their jobs, and satisfy school administrators: attendance means money. You could not have failed, and you haven't.
You move to the downtown Phoenix "arts district," a skanky carnival of unmusical music, bad fashion, burlesque, and crystal meth. Oh! and art, of course; the art.
You're already pierced and tattooed, with triple-hued hair, but who isn't, so you need more. You begin your blending in by ducking into Ret Lab and coming out wearing an overpriced and undersized pink t-shirt with The Knaked Knitters printed thereon. You pin an anti-Bush button on it. Baggy jeans by Nobody. Local artist fridge magnet in your left front pocket, shrinklet in your right. Sideways gimme hat. Rubber rainbow wristband. Skull ring. Cross neckchain. New Sonic Youth CD. Timberland and Idiotic. Congratulations: you look like everybody else.
As you check out the downtown galleries you feel right at home, because your art looks just like everybody else's, too. This is a good thing. You don't want to stand out, you want to fit in. You won't have to pound the pavement for years, like Wayne Thiebaud, or labor in obscurity for four years, like Jasper Johns. People like Scott Sanders and Kimber Lanning will take you under their wings right quick, because you're safe as milk, and just as common. And as long as you agree with their embedded and enduring hatred of the great country which suffers their presence, you can't go wrong.
So you party, snort, and paint, in that order. You're a Phoenix artist. And if that seems an unfair and reductive portrait --well, you asked for it. And it's a lot closer to the truth than Allred's painting.
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by Jerome du Bois
I wasted my day writing about the art world when I should have been working on our novel. I told myself I wasn't going to do this anymore. Too much pain. What a chump. I was going on in this vein--
The art world is a moral swamp. I want to reach for a long set of tongs when I sort through what's bought and sold under the rubric of art: sordid confessions, misogynistic self-humiliation, all bodily excretions, dead animals, dismemberment, pimping out one's own mother, and worse. The most famous artist in the world is the lord of the flies. It's 20,000 Leagues Under The Manure Pile, artist. What are you doing there?
--and so on for a couple of pages. I ended up like this--
Most artists in the art world today would never stand up to declare, "I won't participate in a system that rewards Damien Hirst, Paul McCarthy, and Tracy Emin." And then step outside, as Marcel Duchamp did, to guard the integrity of his life.
Won't happen. They just don't have the moral backbone. They suffer from deconstructive osteoperosis. Remember how the Drawing Center booked from Ground Zero like a stripe-assed ape when their agenda was challenged? Cowards.
And I want to leave it there. It's foolish to angrily point at these jerks. They just laugh at you because they cannot be shamed, they cannot be reached by decency, because they really want to go as low as humans can go. They don't object to Hirst as Hirst; they just want to replace him. And they have no problem with the moral bankruptcy of Jeffrey Dietch and Larry Gagosian, since they share it. So to hell with you whores. Drown in your degradation for all I care. But I spent forty years looking for inspiration and hope and beauty in art, and the last twenty has broken my heart. So allow me to give you bastards a couple swift kicks before I head out.
First, for all the self-important hoopla about the crucial social role of art, the art world doesn't influence the world much, does it? In the last year, what art work has had the most impact upon the world? Picasso's $100M painting? Please. The US economy creates that much money in a few hours. The answer is the Mohammed cartoons. Nothing that the top one hundred living artists in the world has ever done, including all their political whiny crap, has had the worldwide influence of these low-rent illustrations. People everywhere are debating the role of images in the world, but not because of any artist or art writer. Think about that for a second, Richard Serra, Paul McCarthy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith, all you bozos.
Second, the art world really isn't that significant economically, is it? Sotheby's 2005 revenues were around $520M. By contrast, Big Lots, for example, is #465 on the Fortune 500 list, with revenues in excess of $4B. Eight times the value. Do you think if we rolled up Sotheby's worth with Christie's and all the big dealers, that we could reach four billion dollars? I haven't done the math, but I don't think so. If Big Lots dropped off the map for some reason, the US economy would roll on without hardly noticing it. So what kind of perturbations could the art world possibly summon? In the great and glorious vehicle of the US economy, the art world is a cup holder, a hood ornament, a decal.
So for all the posturing and gesturing and puffery, today's artists are pretty much ignored by most people; and the whole worth of the art world (separate from private collectors' holdings) could probably fit inside a broom closet at Wal-Mart.
A difference that makes no difference is no difference.
Maybe that applies to this posting as well. But at least I can look at myself in the mirror.


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Yet another entry about food…Santiago, Spring 2009
But I promise this one includes other Chile-related reflections as well!
As part of my class schedule, I have an internship for 10 hours a week at Educacion Popular en Salud (EPES), a nonprofit organization started during the military dictatorship to meet the needs of marginalized populations that did not have access to adequate healthcare. Since 1982, EPES has used an approach called "popular education," which focuses on personal and community capacitation, viewing health as one of people's fundamental rights. It's an interesting approach and an interesting organization, with every week bringing something new to do. Today that "something new" was as follows:
I arrived at EPES and finished a project I'd been working on in EPES's library. This was easy, as it involves alphabetizing and hole-punching, both of which are skills I readily possess. Then, as my most current work involves administering a telephone survey to rural health workers, I made a few phone calls. I knew from experience that these phone calls would go rather poorly. The goal is for me to make "cold calls" to these healthcare professionals and then, once I reach them, to explain the project and ask them four simple questions. The problem, of course, is that (1) when someone calls you, introduces herself as being from an organization you have potentially never heard of, and then wants to ask you questions, you might be instinctively wary of her intentions (in fact, I have a feeling that, in the U.S., you might just hang up on said person) and (2) even if you do not mind sparing a few minutes to respond to the questions, you may choose not the response that is actually most appropriate based on your organization but, instead, the response which is most intelligible because you unfortunately couldn't understand all of the other responses due to the survey administrator's mispronunciations.
After the successful completion of only two surveys, I went to a meet a woman, Ana, who I'd met at one of EPES's previous workshops and who had since invited me and one of the other interns to attend some of her group's activities (which included a Tai Chi session on Tuesday morning during which the other intern and I were mocked for being unable to follow directions adequately; unfortunately, the other intern, a Chilean, was unable to attend today, leaving me to brave the unknown by myself). The event took place in the group president's house and consisted of a brief administrative meeting, onces (which, as I've mentioned in previous blogs, is a snack or small meal eaten around 5) and lota (which translates as "lottery" and may be a catchall word for betting games. I am not really sure because today's game closely resembled Bingo, and, although I wanted to ask the group what "lota" meant, I didn't because it struck me as one of those questions where the answer appears blatantly obvious, and therefore unexplainable, to everyone involved except the person who asked).
The whole experience was great, as I had no idea what to expect. Unbeknownst to me, the "club" was a senior citizens' group, making me the darling (foreign) grandchild of everyone there. One of the woman lent me her teabag (apparently it was a bring-your-own-cup-saucer-and-tea-bag-or-coffee occasion, but I obviously came unprepared) and I also had the pleasure of sharing onces which consisted of five sopaipillas (which I've already explained are fried dough made from wheat flour, lard, pumpkin and salt). Two of the sopaipillas were served in a sweet syrup and three were served with salsa (both toppings are quite common). However, after everyone had finished their sopaipillas and the table had been cleared, guess what everyone was given? Two white rolls. Why? I have no idea. I don't believe I saw anyone actually eat theirs, as most people tucked them into small plastic bags they'd brought (I didn't come prepared with that either) to save for later, I suppose.
After eating though, we commenced to play "lota" and, although I didn't win, it was good number review for me as the person whom I'm calling the "Bingo caller" went a little rapidly for my comprehension skills. Three women won prizes but I, ever-so-luckily, received a grab-bag-style consolation prize of….a tiny pink crocheted pouch containing a box of matches! Mom, if you're reading, is this one of the things I should bring home with me or one of the things I should part with in Chile to ensure that my suitcases don't exceed 50 pounds?
All in all, an incredibly amusing afternoon. Thanks IES for counting this as part of my class time!
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Communications Suite: Update from a Technical Writer
By Joesciallo-Oracle on Nov 21, 2007
Just a quick note to let you know what I've been working on in Comms Suite land.
- Next Comms Release: As I've been writing about, we're developing a Comms Documentation wiki. To drive the point home once more, all product documentation would be on the wiki (and not on doc.sun.com), and be community editable. (The devil is in the details, of course, but we really want to create a living set of documentation that belongs to the Comms community, is updated often, stays fresh, and so on.) I encourage you to use the Comments section to offer your thoughts on this approach, or to email me directly if you like.
- White paper on how to deploy the MTA with AV/AS services. This topic seems to have some good interest. I'm working with a Sun deployment specialist to develop this paper. Our thoughts are to post a draft on this blog and collect your comments and feedback, to make sure that we've understood all your requirements. Look for this draft very soon.
- White paper on increasing storage for Messaging Server to address the Gmail/Yahoo mail effect (more storage and no mail expiration). I hope that I can share this paper at some time soon. Some very interesting thought shift in how to use Sun products to meet this challenge.
- Another potential solutions paper that I got wind of: Using Java File Manager in conjunction with Communications Express to provide compose capability for sending large attachments: The email is sent with a URL to where the attachment is, which is separately stored.


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Stanford men's water polohad 10 student-athletes named to the All-Academic list released Tuesday by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC).
Student-athletes must have at least a 3.20 grade-point average, play in at least 50 percent of its team's games and be a starter or significant reserve to be eligible for inclusion on the list. The ACWPC breaks down the list into three categories: "Outstanding" is reserved for recipients with cumulative grade-point averages between 4.00-3.71, "Superior" is for those with GPAs between 3.70-3.41, and "Excellent" is for those in the 3.40-3.20 range.
BJ Churnside and Adam Warmoth were each named to the "Outstanding" list for the Cardinal, while Adam Abdulhamid, Bret Bonanni, Drew Holland, and Charlie Wiser all earned "Superior" status.
Forrest Watkins, Conner Cleary, Griffin Bolan and Reid Chase all earned "Excellent" recognition.
Stanford's team GPA was 3.37, a figure that ranks fifth among the schools listed.
Stanford completed the 2013 season with an overall record of 23-6 and finished third at the NCAA Championship.


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Women in the Old Testament
What did it mean to be a woman during Old Testament times? In order to gain theological insight into the Bible's portrayal of women, we examine key Old Testament passages against the background of ancient Israelite society. Contemporary issues surrounding the significance of these texts are discussed, including feminist interpretations. Prerequisite: BIBL 0501.
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High School: A 2011 graduate of Argonaut High School in Jackson, Calif. ... lettered four times in wrestling, two times in football and once in golf ... captained the wrestling team for three years, starting as a sophomore ... captained the JV football team his first two years ... a four-time all-league academic, team scholar athlete, and league champion ... awarded the team MVP his senior year ... is the first wrestler from Argonaut to compete for a Division I program ... the first four-time league champion and two-time section champion in his high school's history.
Personal: Son of Don and Toni Brown ... has a younger brother, Dahkota ... anticipates a major in Native American studies ... contemplates a profession as a financial consultant to Native American tribes ... enjoys hunting, fishing, coaching, automotive work, and golfing ... is a Native American from the Wilton Miwok tribe ... full name is Dahlton Lloyd Mehrten Brown.
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How to Work With Animals at a Zoo
Working with zoo animals is a dream job for many people around the world. But most people don't understand the hard work that goes into an animal keeper's average day or the difficulty of obtaining such a job. Below are suggestions that may prove useful, but it must be understood that getting an animal keeper's job in a zoo requires a combination of education and internship that literally takes years to complete.
1Check the website of your local zoo for volunteer job openings you are qualified to do and apply for the job. Getting a foot in the door and proving your abilities and willingness to help may help in getting that coveted job later. Some of the volunteer openings in a zoo are:
- Grounds keeper assistant
- Gift shop attendant
- Special events or fundraiser assistant
- Children's zoo volunteer
- Maintenance worker
2Learn first aid. This is a valuable attribute to list on a resume, especially in a job with the potential for danger that exists in a zoo.
3Volunteer at places such as animal shelters, especially doing tasks such as cleaning cages and helping care for the various domestic animals.
4Volunteer at a wildlife rehabilitation center. This will often allow you to get hands on experience with wild creatures in a much shorter time than it would take at a zoo.
5Volunteer with an endangered species group. Most of today's zoos are no longer run for the primary purpose of displaying exotic animals that most people would otherwise never see, but as a way to preserve endangered species. This is a great way to gain experience, especially if the endangered species is of particular interest to you.
6Talk to the animal keepers at your local zoo and ask them how they got their job. Specifically ask about their education and experience.
7Check into internship positions in the animal collection departments. This is an excellent way to get hands on experience in working with exotic animals and develop an understanding of the actual work involved in maintaining happy, healthy animals in the zoo setting.
- Internships available are both paid and volunteer. If you only qualify for the volunteer internship and can afford to do it for no pay, take the opportunity. It could prove invaluable in the future.
8Enroll in and complete an animal husbandry program in college. Most zoos require their exotic animal care specialists to have a minimum of a BS in Zoology or a related field.
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- Animal husbandry courses and/or experience working with large farm animals, is a useful attribute to list on a resume. Talk to a veterinarian who works in this field and volunteer to ride along and help in any way needed.
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Fresh from the rain showers of April, the month of May is seemingly off to a good start (especially with the nerdy Star Wars holiday of May 4th coming up). The grass is turning green once again here in the frozen tundra of Minnesota, with trees budding and the birds making an insane amount of noise. Fortunately for that last one, a slew of new albums are set to come out this month to help block out the noises of mating season (ahh, the circle of life). Buy these albums, plug in your headphones to your music player of choice, turn it up as loud as you can... and enjoy!
Lily Allen
Artist: Lily Allen
Album: Sheezus
Genre: Pop, ska, reggae fusion
From: England
Released: May 5
Sheezus is Lily Allen's third studio album and is the first since her hiatus from music in 2009. This album is said to contain "diverse mix of vibrant pop hooks, snappy commentary and a fearlessly perceptive outlook."
Artist: Atmosphere
Album: Southsiders
Genre: Hip hop
From: United States
Released: May 6
Southsiders the seventh studio album from the hip hop group. Special shoutout for a band from my home state of Minnesota! Atmosphere hails from Minneapolis.
Lykke Li
Artist: Lykke Li
Album: I Never Learn
Genre: Indie rock, dream pop, electronic, soul
From: Sweden
Released: May 6
It is said to be the third and final entry in a thematic trilogy Lykke Li started with her first two albums (Youth Novels and Wounded Rhymes). One of her producers on the album also worked/works with Lily Allen.
Current Swell
Artist: Current Swell
Album: Ulysses
Genre: Folk, rock, reggae, ska
From: Canada
Released: May 6
Ulysses is the fourth studio album from Current Swell. The band's music is prominently influenced by their travels and their experiences from them.
Morning Parade
Artist: Morning Parade
Album: Pure Adulterated Joy
Genre: Alternative rock, indie rock
From: England
Released: May 6
Pure Adulterated Joy will be the band's second studio album. Morning Parade also plans to tour the United States with Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro.
Natalie Merchant
Artist: Natalie Merchant
Album: Natalie Merchant
Genre: Alternative rock, pop, folk
From: United States
Released: May 6
With her first full album of original works since 2001, Natalie Merchant's self-titled album will be her sixth solo album. She can also be heard with band 10,000 Maniacs.
Young Magic
Artist: Young Magic
Album: Breathing Statues
Genre: Electronic, dream pop, experimental rock
From: United States (members from Australia and Indonesia)
Released: May 6
Breathing Statues is the second full-length album through Carpark records.
Killer Be Killed
Artist: Killer Be Killed
Album: Killer Be Killed
Genre: Groove metal, hardcore punk
From: United States
Released: May 13
This eponymous album from Killer Be Killed is the band's debut. Featuring former members of Mastadon and the Mars Volta.
The Black Keys
Artist: The Black Keys
Album: Turn Blue
Genre: Garage rock, blues rock, indie rock
From: United States
Released: May 13
Eight studio album from the rock duo. While recording the album, guitarist Dan Auerbach had finalized his divorce, which is said to give Turn Blue its moody feeling.
Conor Oberst
Artist: Conor Oberst
Album: Upside Down Mountain
Genre: Indie rock, alternative rock, folk
From: United States
Released: May 20
Upside Down Mountain is Conor Oberst's ninth solo album, working with the likes of Swedish duo First Aid Kit. Oberst is known for his work with band Bright Eyes, although he has played in several other bands as well.
Sharon Van Etten
Artist: Sharon Van Etten
Album: Are We There
Genre: Indie rock, folk
From: United States
Released: May 27
As the fourth album from Sharon Van Etten, Are We There was self-produced by Van Etten herself with Stewart Lerman and includes a variety of other musicians. Fun Fact: some of the instruments on the recording are said to be used by John Lennon and Patti Smith.


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Baker enters the highly anticipated game with a perfect record of 4-0 and 3-0 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference. The Wildcats have opened up the season with four straight victories for the first time since 2000 and have won eight straight dating back to last season.
Under head coach Mike Grossner, Baker is 2-2 at home against Mo Valley in his nine years as head coach and Baker's last victory came in 2008 in a 26-22 win at home.
The No. 5 Vikings come to town with a 3-0 record and perfect mark in the HAAC at 2-0. They have averaged 41 points per game and have a margin of victory of 32 points.
Missouri Valley collected its three victories over McPherson, 27-13, MidAmerica Nazarene, 41-7 and Avila, 55-6.
The Wildcats four victories came against No. 11 Ottawa, 27-20, Peru State, 34-13, Evangel, 48-17 and Central Methodist, 24-14.
Baker is currently ranked No. 5 in the country in total
scoring offense with 133 points and ninth in total passing yards with 835, 557 of those yards have come from senior Sam Vossen and 269 from junior Jake Morse.
Morse will start his second straight game after missing the Peru State and Evangel contests.
Last week against Central Methodist, Morse bounced back with a 12-for-18 night with 254 yards and two touchdowns.
The Wildcats top two rushers on the season have been two newcomers, junior Dillon Baxter and freshman Jermaine Broomfield.
Baxter leads the team with 274 yards on the ground, averaging five yards per carry and two touchdowns. He had his longest run of the season in the win over CMU on a 35-yard touchdown run.
Broomfield has run for 249 yards and a team high four touchdowns. He averages 4.5 yards per carry.
Senior Reggie Harris has been the team leader in receiving for much of the season with his team high 12 receptions, 267 yards receiving and is second on the team in touchdown receptions with two. Fellow senior Joel Murphy leads the Cats' in touchdown catches with three.
Five Wildcats have 20 or more tackles including team leader Adam Steele (35), Preston Schenck (27), Andre Jolly (25), Jesse Campbell (20) and Adrian Pearson (20).
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The final box score practically screamed
"North Carolina victory." The 10th-ranked Tar Heels shot 51
percent, held Virginia to 28 percent and won the rebounding battle
Somehow, in a gritty game that had all the rhythm of a wrestling
match, it simply wasn't that easy.
"We understand every game is not going to be pretty, we're not
going to always win pretty," forward Reyshawn Terry said. "We
just have to step up and be willing to take on the challenge when
it comes."
No one did it better than him.
Terry had 24 points, freshman Tyler Hansbrough added 17 and
North Carolina overcame a sluggish start to beat Virginia 79-67
Friday night in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference
"I loved our toughness," coach Roy Williams said. "They've
learned to listen to what I say and not be concerned if the vein in
my neck or head is busting or anything like that. I liked our
competitiveness, and I think it will help us."
David Noel finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds as the Tar
Heels (22-6) won their eighth straight and 11th in the past 12
games. This was nothing like their 45-point rout of the Cavaliers
last week, when North Carolina used the emotion of Senior Night to
post the largest margin of victory in the 95-year history of the
Still, it was enough to earn a spot in the semifinals against
the winner of the Maryland-Boston College game. Wes Miller made
three 3-pointers and had 15 points for the Tar Heels.
"One of the reasons I didn't want to play Virginia was because
of what happened nine days ago," Williams said. "If somebody
beats me by 45, I'm going to be so fired up it's going to be
Point guard Sean Singletary had 29 points and 10 rebounds for
his first career double-double for Virginia (15-14), which can only
hope for an NIT bid. J.R. Reynolds scored 20 points despite
shooting 3-for-16 from the field, and he and Singletary combined to
convert 24-of-26 at the free throw line.
"It really doesn't matter what type of game I had," Singletary
said. "We lost and my season is over, and they're still playing."
His coach, Dave Leitao, quickly corrected him.
"What Sean said, and you didn't hear him, was regular season,"
Leitao said.
The Tar Heels missed seven shots in a row during one stretch of
the early going and trailed 14-4 after about 5½ minutes. They
responded with a 20-2 run to take control, with the final points
coming courtesy of a technical on Leitao.
Oddly, his anger came after a missed shot by North Carolina's
Danny Green. Referee Bryan Kersey called the technical that led to
two free throws from Miller, while Leitao still yelled on the
sideline. Assistant coach Rob Lanier got off the bench to stand
between his boss and the court, but Leitao wasn't finished.
He disgustedly tossed a rubber band on the court when Virginia
eventually got possession, and during a media timeout moments
later, he glared at Kersey for several seconds before returning to
his team's huddle.
"I was irate and frustrated, and we had an exchange," Leitao
said. "We both said some things that probably we shouldn't have
said, and I didn't have a whistle to call a 'T' on him, so he
called one on me."
Perhaps it inspired the Cavaliers. They came back to force the
final tie of the game at 24 on two free throws from Reynolds and
trailed 39-34 at halftime.
North Carolina scored the first six points of the second half
for an 11-point lead, and even though Virginia eventually got
within four, the outcome never really was in doubt.
"Like Coach said, on a scale from 1-to-10, we probably played
at a 2," Noel said. "We're lucky to get out of here with a win,
especially against the caliber of team like Virginia. They
definitely had a chip on their shoulder from the last game."
Terry narrowly missed his career high of 25 points scored
earlier this season at Kentucky, and Miller reached double figures
for only the second time in the past eight games. Hansbrough kept
doing what he's been doing through all 28 games of his first
Earlier this week, he became the first freshman to be an
unanimous selection to the All-ACC first-team, and he did nothing
to disappoint in his first outing since the honor. Hansbrough now
has scored at least 14 points in each game except one as he tries
to become the first first-year player to lead North Carolina in
scoring and rebounding.
"It was really physical," Hansbrough said. "It was pretty
bumpy, and they were double- and triple-teaming me at times. That's
when I had to stay within myself and make some pretty good moves."


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Laura Shepard Churchkey, daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into outer space, leads the parade commemorating the 50th anniversary of Shepard's historic flight Saturday, May 7, 2011 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Alan Shepard brought along his 1957 Corvette when he reported for Space Program training in April 1959. He would own at least 10 Corvettes in his lifetime. His enthusiasm for sports cars was shared by several of the other young men who would train with him to become America's first astronauts.
Astronaut Sam Durrance autographed the engine block of '06 Corvette owner Jack Legere, of Titusville, Fla., after the parade commemorating the historic flight of Alan Shepard - the first American to travel into outer space exactly 50 years ago - Saturday, May 7, 2011 in Cocoa Beach, Florida.


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I have tasted these vadais during my train journeys from Bangalore to Mysore. It used to taste really delicious,crunchy though a bit oily. I was looking for the recipe and I finally found it Jaya Shenoy's Dakshin bharat dishes cook book. I made them this weekend and was really good.
I am sending this to Anisheetu who is hosting SWC karnataka this month.
Chana dal- 1 cup
Cabbage - chopped -1cup
Grated coconut-1/2cup
Green chillies- 2 finely chopped
Til/sesame seeds- 1tbspn
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying.
Soak chana dal for an hour and then drain the water. Add the chopped cabbage and coconut gratings in it. Grind them together to a coarse paste. Then add sesame seeds ,green chillies and salt and mix well. Make small balls of desired size with the paste. Flatten them and deep fry. Serve hot.
Time for some awards-
Lakshmi, Sireesha and Uma have passed me the "Brilliante Weblog award" . Thanks a lot . I am so glad to receive it.
I would like to pass this award to Asha, Cynthia, Rosie,Chawanmushi, Maria, Sefa firdaus and Lisa.
Uma has also passed me these two beautiful awards.
I would like to pass these two awards to Lakshmi, sireesha, Priyanka, Vanisri, Anisheetu, Srilekha, Sukanya, Priti, Easycrafts. Congrats on your awards!!!