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EVANSTON, Ill. - Bradley has played three road games at Northwestern in its 27-year men's soccer history and all three times, the Braves have departed Lakeside Field with an overtime victory. The third overtime road win against the Wildcats is the most significant as Bradley (14-6-2) got the golden goal from senior forward Wojciech Wojcik in the 97th minute for a 3-2 win at Northwestern (10-8-3) in the first round of the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship Thursday night.
Wojcik, the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, contributed to all three Bradley scores with an assist and two goals, including the golden winner on a header off an Andrew Brown service at 96:47. The Braves earned their fourth all-time NCAA Tournament victory and advance to a second-round match Sunday (3:30 p.m. CST) at California (12-4-2), the tournament's No. 4 overall seed.
Much like the season's first meeting between Bradley and Northwestern Oct. 2, which also resulted in a 3-2 overtime win for the Braves, Bradley struck early Thursday night. Senior midfielder Scott Davis collected a pass from Wojcik and sent a 25-yard missle past Northwestern keeper Tyler Miller for a 1-0 Bradley lead just 6:09 into the game. Sophomore defender Grant Bell started the scoring play after controlling a 50-50 ball and playing ahead to Wojcik.
Northwestern wasted little time getting back into the game, however, as Cole Missimo beat his defender for a run down the right side before sending a flank service into the penalty area, where Nikko Boxall one-timed a shot from 7 yards out for the equalizer at 11:28.
Undaunted, Bradley kept up the pressure and took advantage of the game's first corner kick in the 27th minute. Brown drove the service from the right corner and the 6-foot-3 Wojcik rose above the fray for a strong header past Tyler and a 2-1 Bradley lead at 26:43.
With time beginning to work against Northwestern, the host Wildcats kept steady pressure on the Braves throughout the second half and finally found their second equalizer of the night in the 79th minute following a free kick deep in Bradley's defensive end. Chris Ritter lined the free kick from about 28 yards out on the left flank. It appeared the ball glanced off a Bradley head as it sailed toward the goal. Braves keeper Brian Billings made the initial save, but the rebound fell to Grant Wilson and the Northwestern defender deposited the loose ball to knot the score at 2-2 at 78:02.
Both teams managed 17 shots through 90 minutes of regulation, but with the wind at its back to start the first overtime period, Bradley gained control in extra time, outshooting Northwestern, 4-1, in the seven overtime minutes. Bradley's game-winning possession started with a free kick from near midfield. Northwestern initially cleared the ball, but Brown was able to regain control and send in a service from the left. Wojcik again rose high above the crowd about 12 yards from the goal and was able to send a head ball over Miller for the game-winner.
With his seventh-minute assist, Wojcik set Bradley's single-season school record and joined Evansville's Faik Hajderovich as the nation's co-leaders this season, each with 14 assists. The goals were his fourth and fifth of the season and his sixth career game-winning goal moved him into a tie for eighth on Bradley's all-time list.
Bradley has advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the third time in program history, all within the last seven years. The Braves reached the quarterfinals in 2007 and the second round in 2011. Saturday's game at California will be the first-ever men's soccer meeting between the two teams. The Braves are 1-1-0 all-time against Pac-12 Conference school's, dropping a 2-1 decision at Stanford Sept. 25, 1999 and earning a 1-0 win against Oregon State Sept. 11, 2004 at Shea Stadium.


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BLC #17, WUB Week 3 and Visual Motivation Challenge
Monday, February 11, 2013
Well, this feels like cheating merging these two blogs together like this, but I have truly had a difficult weekend and I am going to merge them for the sake of brevity (and my sanity) right now.
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WUB, Week 3
Week 3 began with a bang, and I was going super strong until the end of the week when my body just started to give out. A challenge this week was to read up on overtraining, and boy... do I do it to myself. All the time. And this was no exception.
So, I didn't make my 285 minute goal this week but stopped at 210. I have taken the last four days off of exercise (yeah, I was averaging 70 minutes a day there at the beginning of the week. Oy! No wonder my bones and joints were hurting). But, I'm chomping at the bit and ready to be back at it tomorrow. :) This week, I'm going to tone down my goal just a bit - 200 minutes instead of nearly 300 - and perhaps consider allowing two days off instead of only one. Overall, though, I'm still pleased with my fitness momentum this week.
Diet needs some tuning, however. I hope to be able to focus on that more this week. I'm ashamed to tell you how many cookies I ate yesterday. :( I'm also not tracking, but that's more a problem of how little time I have for myself. I need to work harder at finding the time, though.
Let's recap on this week's goals and see how I did:
1) Keep getting 10 cups of water every day. Try to make all days.
6 out of 7 days. Yay!
2) Keep taking the stairs everyday.
5 out of 7 :|
3) Do stair running at least once this week. For real, this time. ;)
Ack! Still didn't do!
4) Take 15 minutes at bed time to relax by reading, resting, etc. This is REALLY important.
Yes, reading before bed. Yay me.
5) Get at least 6.5 hours of sleep each night this week, also REALLY important.
MUCH better this week. 3 out of 5 weekdays I got nearly 8 hours each night! Wowsers!
For Week 4, the goals are the same. Remember, 5 simple goals to keep doing until I finally, once-and-for-all have them down pat.
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Visual Motivation Challenge
One of our weekly challenges was to create a visual motivator that we can view daily. I decided to make a slideshow, and I will keep the file on my desktop labeled in all caps WATCH ME TODAY! I will begin my day with the slideshow to remind me of why I'm doing this. Also, I use Goal Worksheets for projects I'm working on, and I will fill one out for my weight loss goals, too.
I had wanted to make a link to my slideshow that you guys could view, but that doesn't seem to be working out for me. :(
So, I will put up snapshots of my slideshow instead (sorry for the low resolution):
Finally, although I didn't get to it yet, I will be updating my Langau to Vienna virtual journey very soon. Sneak peak: I'm over a third of the way there!!
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"Vigeland Stories' is one of my art projects that was initiated during my visit to Oslo, Norway in May 2010.
Exploring Vigeland Museum and Park in Oslo I was very impressed by Vigeland art works and the scale of the project, which is the world's largest sculpture park accomplished by a single artist. What particularly attracted my attention were 36 granite sculptures, built around the Monolith plateau, which seemed to be engaged in a continuing conversation among themselves, perhaps about important matters in the cycle of life.
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I am a photographer and cinematographer. After graduating from the Vocational School for Audio and Visual Arts in Warsaw I continued my art education in the Cinematography Department of the Silesian Film School in Katowice. Over the past few years I participated in many individual and group photographic exhibitions across Poland as well as in Europe. My photographs have appeared in numerous publications and have been sold to private collections. Currently based in Warsaw, I continue to travel around the world passionately creating cutting edge images for art and commercial projects.
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Today SAG presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2013 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. As the ladies walked the red carpet, an exciting, new trend unfolded: strong and sexy. Strong emerged as the new sexy with elegant gowns with a flare for boldness and a bias for biceps. Here's our top three picks for those who made strong the new Sexy at SAG.
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#3: Sofia Vergara
Perhaps leading the way in the weeknight TV strong and sexy Sofia Vergara was an inspiration today at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on today in Los Angeles.
#2: Lupita Nyong
Red Carpet newcomer Lupita Nyong turned heads with several amazing looks that made her SAG Strong & Sexy Top 5 front runner. Just look at her rockin' this bold turquoise gown by Gucci as she accepts the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role award.
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#1: And the winner is... Amy Adams for rockin strong and sexy the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Here she is as she arrived at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.


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You've probably heard the term "Comic relief." Humor is one of the greatest stress relievers known to man. It is a fact of life that if we take ourselves too seriously for too long, misery we will become our constant companion, and we will become stuck in our ability to move forward in life. That is not to minimize the trials, challenges, and difficulties of life that we face, especially for those who struggle with mental health challenges, but finding humor and amusement in ourselves and circumstances can lighten the load for ourselves and those around us. That is what Stand up for Mental Health seeks to help mental health consumers to do.
What is Stand Up for Mental Health?
Stand Up for Mental Health is an amazing organization by which people with mental health challenges are trained to perform stand up comedy. Its purpose is to fight the stigma of mental illness, build confidence in the performers, finding humor in their struggles, and to see the lighter side of life. Counselor, mental health consumer, comic, and founder of Stand Up for Mental Health, David Granirer, trains groups struggling with mental health issues all around the country. Let me tell you, the shows are FUN, FUN, FUN, and give new meaning to lol (laughing out loud).
Various mental health organizations hire David to run the classes via Skype. At the end of the course David joins the class and they perform in front of an audience. Yes, it's a bit scary, but it is also liberating and empowering and shows the consumer and the audience that people who have mental disorders are capable of bringing smiles, laughter, and something of great value to the world - themselves!
Stand Up for Mental Health has a DVD out called Cracking Up, a Voice Award winning documentary. It follows a year in the life of Stand Up for Mental Health. In it you can see people with mental health challenges overcome many obstacles to train and perform stand up comedy about their lives with mental illness. And of course viewers witness the performances. Watching people who struggle with anxiety, fear, depression, lack of value and self confidence reach into themselves to find and use a natural talent they never knew they possessed or thought they could use, is inspiring, heart warming, and side splitting.
This is an incredible opportunity for the performers to spread their wings and soar through their journey with hilarity. It will empower them, and propel them into a new dimension of wellness and recovery. What a way to begin the new year!
People with mental health issues have often told themselves "I can't" or "Ya, but."
"Ya, but I'd never be able to do stand up comedy." David Granierer emphatically promises, "I will do whatever it takes to make sure that you will succeed."
"Ya but my family (friends, co-workers etc.) will laugh at me for wanting to do this" Well, laughing is what it's all about. Make them laugh on performance night, then you will have the last laugh.
Granirer says, "Seeing people with mental illness do it forces the audience to re-evaluate their perceptions of and prejudices against people who have a mental illness."
As we speak, TACID (Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilitites) is conducting a class. And I will admit, I too, am currently in this class and can testify that everything David says is true.
Stand Up for Mental Health to perform in Tacoma
The current Stand Up for Mental Health class at TACID will perform in a show in Tacoma, sponsored by Optum Health and TACID, on March 28th at Tacoma City College. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-for-mental-health-tickets-10437040469?aff=es2&rank=0
Please come out and show your support and prepare yourself to laugh out loud. We guarantee you will leave with aching sides from all the laughing.
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Police are looking for the person who left a loaded 9mm gun in the toy aisle at Target, which could have been a tragedy if a child passing by picked it up thinking it was a toy. Thankfully it was an employee who found the gun at the Myrtle Beach Target store before a kid came along and decided to play with it.
According to MSN News on June 6, the employee was investigating a possible theft in the store when he came across the loaded 9mm firearm. The gun was laying on top of a superhero toy box. He was investigating a man that he saw repeatedly walking around that area of the toy aisle, but he didn't know if the man had placed the gun on the toy box.
As Travelers Today suggests a loaded gun in the toy aisle at Target "could have ended with dire consequences if a child found the loaded gun." Thankfully the employee was the one to discover the firearm.
Police said the gun had eight bullets inside, so it was ready to be fired. After running the serial numbers through their database, the police found that the gun was not reported as stolen. The gun doesn't appear to be registered to anyone. They are going over the store's security camera to see who put the gun in an area that kids would be drawn to it.
Target is one of the many businesses that are under pressure to prohibit customers from bringing their legal firearms in the store. On Wednesday a petition asking the company not to allow gun-toting customers in the store was launched by the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
The gun was described as a "black gun" and it could have easily been mistaken for a toy. People in the area were stunned to hear that someone would do this in the toy department, as that gun would have been a magnet for some child walking by. As of today police are going over the surveillance camera video trying to pin point the person who did this.


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Dr. Carla Hayden could be the #nextLOC
President Obama announces his intent to nominate Dr. Carla Hayden as the next Librarian of Congress. Dr. Hayden would be the first-ever professional librarian in the position. She is currently CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, served as President of the American Library Association from 2003-2004, and she was the first African-American to receive the Library Journal's Librarian of the Year Award. She began her career with the Chicago Public Library in 1973. [more inside]
Commonplace Books: Notebooks for Magpies
Before Pinterest and Evernote and Tumblr, there was the humble commonplace book, a space for gathering and reflecting on ideas, quotations, observations, lines from poems, and other information. "How and Why to Keep a Commonplace Book" is a brief introduction to a venerable tradition of idea curation. [more inside]
(Another) look at Giovanni Battista Braccelli's Bizzarie di varie figure
Giovanni Battista d'Antonio Braccelli was a Florentine artist (PDF*) who was active from 1616 to 1649, and is little known beyond some highly creative works. Finding details on his life can be more difficult due to multiple forms for his names (Giovanbatista, Bracelli, Braccielli, Brazzè, and the nickname "il Bigio" - the gray one) within his own work and secondary sources, and early writers conflated his biography with that of a Genoese painter of the same name. But if you enjoy surreal illustrations, check out Braccelli's Bizzarie di varie figure (online view from Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France; online and PDF in the US Library of Congress collection** from Lessing J. Rosenwald). [more inside]
The Roadmap to Saving the Sounds of America, Though the Road is Bumpy
The National Recording Preservation Board was mandated by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, but it didn't have a preservation plan in place to address saving everything from the oldest tin foil recordings (prev) to recent "born digital" creations. That changed with the National Recording Preservation Plan (full 89 page PDF). Except, "the recording preservation provisions under current law are so restrictive you literally can't make — legally — a digital copy of an older analog recording without permissions which are very hard to get" (NPR). [more inside]
Ex Libris Houdini
Ehrich Weisz may not have had much formal education, but he grew up to be Harry Houdini, self-educated stunt performer, escape artist, and owner of "one of the largest libraries in the world on psychic phenomena, Spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, demonology, evil spirits, etc., some of the material going back as far as 1489." Houdini bequeathed much of his collection to the Library of Congress, which received 3,988 volumes from his collection in 1927, including a number of magic books inscribed or annotated by well-known magicians. Archive.org has more of the Harry Houdini Collection online. He also put a great deal of research into his tricks, as seen in his letter to Dr. W. J. McConnell, a physiologist at the U.S. Bureau of Mines, written up after Houdini's watery grave stunt in 1926.
The art of Kevin J. Weir, who enjoys bears, space, and GIFs
Kevin J. Weir is an artist, making ads (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and more interestingly, not ads. In the latter category, he has made 3 stand-alone sites: the Flux Machine, a tumblr of public domain images turned into animated GIFs, ranging from amusing to surreal (with an extra dash of Lovecraft), which Cartoon Brew likened to Terry Gilliam and Stan VanDerBeek; Nyan Waits, another spin-off of the Nyan Cat meme/theme, now with more Tom Waits; and Loud Portraits, an interactive portrait gallery. [more inside]
Music to my ears.
Tufte eat your heart out!
"A Series of Statistical Charts, Illustrating The Condition of the Descendants of Former African Slaves Now Resident In the United States of America." (HQ Library of Congress links.) W.E.B. DuBois : "I wanted to set down its aim and method in some outstanding way which would bring my work to the notice of the thinking world. The great World's Fair at Paris was being planned and I thought I might put my findings into plans, charts and figures, so one might see what we were trying to accomplish." [more inside]
It's probably doing some research on Natty Bumppo
Since at least Wednesday, there's been a Cooper's Hawk in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress. It has has adopted the ornate 160ft high dome as its aerie. [more inside]
Early films from the Library of Congress
America at Work, America at Leisure - "Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures." [Library of Congress Youtube playlist]
Music and the Brain
Music and the Brain The Library of Congress' Music and the Brain podcasts offer lectures and conversations about new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Sufi rituals, Wednesday is Indigo Blue (synaesthesia), Your Brain on Jazz, The Music of Language and the Language of Music, and more.
For Ourselves and Our Posterity
Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project The Library of Congress invites you to submit digital audio or video recordings of speeches made between January 16 and january 25, 2009 on the occasion of Barack Obama's inauguration. The speeches will be archived in a collection for future scholarship, much like the Day of Infamyand other collections capturing signifcant American moments.
This deal here is new
"New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources was created to serve as a starting point for research using Library of Congress collections of New Deal program materials." Includes links to numerous collections of digitized materials, including photos, posters, music, manuscripts and more. [more inside]
Webcasts from the Library of Congress
Webcasts from the Library of Congress. Hundreds of recent public programs from the Library of Congress, from Indian Religious Freedom, to Litigate or Legislate? to End of European Colonial Empires, to Robert E. Lee, to 1507 Waldseemuller World Map. Other topics include Performing Arts, Education, Government, World Affairs, Literature, Religion and Science. [more inside]
Rediscovered photos from Lincoln's second inauguration
"New" photos emerge of Lincoln's second inauguration The Library of Congress has discovered new photographs taken in 1865 at Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration. For years they were filed under President Grant's archive, mislabeled into obscurity. Incidentally, this week will be the grand opening of Lincoln's summer "cottage" in northwest DC.
Manteca to Nirvana
The latest additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress have just been announced. This year's additions of "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" works include "Swanee'" by Al Jolson, Edward R. Murrow's radio reports from London during WWII, and "Fear of a Black Planet" by Public Enemy. View the full registry here, selection criteria and nomination information here.
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A local horse trainer who admits leaving horses to die on a Bethel farm is now a free man, after serving just two months of his six months sentence.
29 year old Chad Moore pleaded guilty to six counts of abandoning animals. Ten dead horses were found on December 28, 2009, on a Tate Township farm where Moore worked.
Six malnourished horses, a donkey and a miniature horse were rescued. Two of the animals later died.
Moore was sentenced in March to six months in jail and ordered not to have contact with any animals ever again.
Moore participated in a work program in jail and earned credits for early release.


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More than 100 personalities from TV, film, music and sport sign a letter hoping to alter America's hard-line approach to drugs.
16:01, UK, Tuesday 09 April 2013
Stars including Scarlett Johansson, Kim Kardashian and Lil Wayne have put their names to a letter urging Barack Obama to change US drug laws and restrict prison sentences.
Rap mogul and Def Jam Recordings founder Russell Simmons is behind the campaign which praises the president's efforts but insists the "time is right" for further change.
Other well-known personalities lending their name to the letter include Susan Sarandon, Will Smith, Mike Tyson, Demi Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Longoria, Russell Brand, Nicki Minaj and Sir Richard Branson.
The letter calls for jail terms to be replaced with a focus on "intervention and rehabilitation" for non-violent offenders.
It also asks that judges are able to waive mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences.
"Hundreds of thousands of children have lost a parent to long prison sentences for non-violent drug offences, leaving these children to fend for themselves," says the letter.
"Many of these children end up in the criminal justice system," it adds.
"(It) comes as no surprise as studies have shown the link between incarceration and broken families, juvenile delinquency, violence and poverty."
The letter also asks Mr Obama to form a panel to handle clemency requests and requests a meeting with the President.
Drug offenders comprise nearly half the federal prison population in the US.
The issue of drugs is high on the agenda in America, with a national survey suggesting the majority of Americans are now in favour of legalising cannabis.
Colorado and Washington state voted to legalise the drug last November but it remains illegal at the federal level, prompting a debate about how police should treat producers and users.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - There were no wrong turns in Albuquerque for English Gardner. Nor were there any for the Ducks' 5,000 meter runners in Seattle.
"Mission accomplished," said Associate Athletic Director Vin Lananna. "It was a great night for the Men and Women of Oregon in the 5,000s and of course a special performance by English Gardner in the 60 and 200."
Gardner, the sophomore speedster, jumped out of the blocks and sped away from the field to easily win the women's 60 meters in an NCAA-leading and school-record 7.17 seconds Friday night at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational. Florida's Alishea Usery was second in a distant 7.35. Garner's time was just .01 shy of the all-time collegiate top 10 in the 60 meters.
The Voorhees, N.J., native got the day off to a quick start for the sprinters by winning her preliminary heat of the 60 meters in 7.20 seconds, which at the time, tied the school record set by Amber Purvis a year ago. Purvis also won her 60 heat in 7.24 as both runners advanced to the final. Purvis would end up 11th in the final in 7.53 seconds.
Gardner's winning time was an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Indoor Championships next month in Boise.
But she wasn't done for the night. A few hours later, Gardner won the 200 meters in a personal best 23.34. That was the second-fastest time in the NCAA this season and No. 2 on the all-time Oregon indoor list.
Phyllis Francis won the 400 meters in an indoor personal-best 53.07. That time moved the Queens, N.Y., sophomore to No. 2 on the UO indoor list. Francis also anchored the 4x400 meter relay team to victory. She was joined by Chizoba Okodogbe, Purvis and Laura Roesler in a season-best 3:37.05.
For the men, sophomore Mike Berry took third in the 400 meters in an indoor personal-best 46.58, which was the No. 3 time indoors for the Ducks.
Oregon's lineup of Bryan Harper, Arthur Delaney, Jack Galpin and Berry also won the 4x400 meter relay in a season-best 3:09.38.
Junior Joeal Hotchkins ran a personal best 6.79 in the finals of the 60 meters and finished 11th overall.
In the 200 meters, Delaney, a freshman from Gresham, won his heat in 21.56. That time was 11th overall.
Meanwhile at the Husky Classic in Seattle, five men and women hit the NCAA automatic qualifying standard.
The Ducks placed three runners in the top nine of the women's 5,000 meters. Junior Jordan Hasay led that group with a fourth place finish in 15:45.54. In her first career indoor 5,000, the Arroyo Grande, Calif., native clocked the No. 2 time in school history, missing the record by less than a second.
Alexandra Kosinski came in sixth in 15:47.81 in her first race in nearly a year. Senior Bronwyn Crossman rounded out the Duck runners with a ninth-place finish in an all-conditions personal best 15:56.35. That time gave the Bellingham, Wash., native the No. 5 mark in school history.
Perhaps most importantly, all three Ducks beat the NCAA standard an automatically qualified for the Indoor national championships. The race was won by Oregon Track Club Elite's Sally Kipyego in a world-leading 15:15.41.
In a very fast men's 5,000 both Trevor Dunbar and Parker Stinson ran NCAA automatic times, the first two for the men this season. Dunbar, a sophomore from Kodiak, Alaska, clocked an all-conditions personal best 13:36.86 in a fourth place finish. Stinson, a sophomore from Austin, Texas, also had an all-conditions PR, 13:39.22, to place fifth.
Those were the third and fourth fastest times indoors at Oregon.
OTC Elite's Chris Thompson won in a world-leading 13:29.94, with teammate Kevin Chelimo just behind in 13:30.25.


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compiled by Debra Burchett-Lere
Born June 25, San Mateo, California.
B.A., University of California at Berkeley.
M.A. University of California at Berkeley.
Began painting in San Francisco, California.
Lived and worked in Paris, France with travels to Mexico, Japan, and
Solo gallery shows at Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris; Galerie du Dragon,
Solo show at Galerie Rive Droite, Paris.
"12 Americans" group show at the Museum of Modern Art, New
York City.
Solo gallery shows at Galerie Rive Droite, Paris; Martha Jackson Gallery,
New York City.
Completed mural for the Sogetsu School of the sculptor and flower arranger,
Sofu Teshigahara, in Tokyo, Japan.
Solo show at Gimpel Fils, Ltd, London, England.
Solo shows at Gimpel Fils Ltd., London; Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern,
Switzerland; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City.
Lived in New York City; worked on the Chase Manhattan Bank mural.
Solo museum show at Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California that traveled
to San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco ; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,
Lived in Bern. Solo museum show at Kunsthalle, Bern that traveled to
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Moved to Santa Monica, California, which became permanent home base.
Solo show at Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, California.
Solo shows at Minami Gallery, Tokyo; Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern; Galerie
Benador, Zurich, Switzerland.
Major exhibition at Documenta III, Kassel, Germany.
Sky painting performance in Japan over Tokyo Bay.
Snow painting performance in Naibara, Japan.
Solo show at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York City.
Retrospective museum show at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas that
traveled to University Art
Museum, Berkeley; San Francisco Museum of Art.
Receives Honorary Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Solo shows at Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris; Kunsthalle,
Solo exhibit at Minami Gallery, Tokyo.
Painted and installed commissioned mural for the National Gallery of
Art, West Berlin, Germany.
Solo museum show at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Also exhibited at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City; Felix Landau
Gallery, Los Angeles.
Established the Litho Shop in Santa Monica to print and publish his own
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York City; Nicholas
Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles.
Retrospective solo museum show at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
New York, that traveled to Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York City; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; Oakland Museum
of Art, Oakland, California.
Exhibit at the Stanford University Museum of Art, Palo Alto, California.
Lived and painted primarily in Tokyo.
Exhibition at the Idemitsu Art Museum, Tokyo.
Solo show at Minami Gallery, Tokyo. Incorporated the Litho Shop.
Solo exhibitions at Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Jean
Fournier, Paris; André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Richard Gray Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois; Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern; Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo
Alto, California.
Began collaboration with Garner Tullis on monotypes.
Paintings in group exhibition "Art in Progress" at the Louisiana Museum
of Art at Humlebaek, Denmark
that traveled to Centre Pompidou, Paris; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm.
Solo shows at Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles; Otis Art Institute,
Los Angeles.
Retrospective exhibition of works on paper at Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, Massachusetts, that traveled to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Manila, Korea,
and Japan under the U.S. International communication Agency.
Included in "Art in Progress" exhibition at Israel Museum, Jerusalem,
Solo shows at Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; André Emmerich Gallery, New
York; Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York.
Exhibition at Abbaye de Senanque, Gordes, France; Monotypes,"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Solo exhibitions at Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles; James Corcoran Gallery,
Los Angeles; and Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto.
Mural commissions at Weinstocks Department Store, Sacramento, and General Services
Administration building in Anchorage, Alaska.
Becomes part of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Ace Gallery, Los
Angeles; Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara; Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery,
Established temporary painting studio in San Leandro, California to complete
the San Francisco Museum of Art Mural commission.1982
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Nantenshi Gallery,
Tokyo; and monotype exhibition at Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.1983
Completed the San Francisco Airport Mural.
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie Kornfeld, Bern;
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Fondation Maeght, St.Paul, France; Studio
Marconi, Milan, Italy; Colorado State University, Colorado (monotypes); Galerie
Jean Fournier, Paris; Art Attack Gallery, Idaho; John Berggruen Gallery, San
Francisco; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo and a travelling survey of works on paper
through the Art Museum Association of America.
Established Lapis Press to publish artists books.
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Pamela Auchincloss Gallery,
Santa Barbara; Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York; Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham,
Michigan and Robert Elkon Gallery, New York; Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla,
California; Knoedler Gallery, London; Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles; Steven Wirtz
Gallery, San Francisco.
Solo exhibitions at Galerie Kornfeld, Bern; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris;
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; Smith-Andersen Gallery,
Palo Alto; Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Isle, Florida.
Completed mural for the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie Jean Fournier,
Paris; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Le Maire de Paris,
Received commission to paint mural for ceiling of the Opera National,
Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels.
Solo exhibitions at Knoedler Gallery, London; André Emmerich Gallery,
New York; Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara; Heland Thorden Wetterling
Galleries, Stockholm; G.Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; Galeria Eude,
Barcelona Spain; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Pudelko, Bonn,
Germany; Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York.
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie Jean Fournier,
Paris; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo; Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Greenberg
Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri; Galerie Seoul, Korea.
Sam Francis Exhibition traveled throughout Japan, April 1988-March 1989
to: Toyama Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa, the
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Ohara Museum of Art, Murashiki, Setagaya Art Museum,
Solo exhibitions at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie
Jean Fournier, Paris; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Sun Valley Center Gallery,
Ketchum, Idaho; Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA; Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham;
Knoedler Gallery, London.
Solo shows at Associated American Artists, New York (prints); Gallery
Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm; Ogawa
Art Foundation, Tokyo (monotypes); Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho; Talbot Rice
Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Andre' Emmerich Gallery, New York; Smith Andersen
Gallery, Palo Alto (prints).
Forty year retrospective at Galerie Kornfeld, Bern.
Solo shows at Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; James Corcoran Gallery, Los
Angeles; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; Associated American Artists, New York
(prints); Gagosian Gallery, New York; Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenees,
Toulouse-Labege, France.
Galerie Daniel Papierski, Paris; Museum van der Togt, Amsterdam; Kukje
Gallery, Seoul.
Retrospective museum exhibition at the Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der
Bundesrepublik Deutchland, Bonn, Germany, curated by Pontus Hulten.
Solo shows at Galerie Pudelko, Bonn; Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Venice,
California; Michele Cohen Gallery, New York; Ochi Gallery, Ketchum; Manny Silverman
Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland.
Commission for new German Parliament Building, Bonn.
Major donation of ten paintings to The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA),
Los Angeles.
Solo shows at Long Fine Art, New York; Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam; Bobbie
Greenfield Gallery, Venice, CA; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France; Galerie
Proarta, Zurich; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo;
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley honored Francis
with Distinguished Alumnus Award and announced Scholarship Award in Francis
Daco Verlag Günter Bläse, Stuttgart, Germany published major
monograph on monotypes.
November 4, 1994, Sam Francis passed away in Santa Monica.
"The Last Paintings of Sam Francis," 152 small paintings (painted
June through August 1994, at his Santa Monica house studio) exhibited at The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Manny Silverman
Gallery, Los Angeles
Solo museum exhibitions at Grunwald/UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles;
Kunstverein Ludwigsberg, Germany.
"Les annees Parisiennes - 1950-1961," at the Jeu de Paume,
Paris reunited the three Basel Mural panels.
Solo shows at Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Sogetsu Art Museum,
Tokyo; Gallery Delaive,
Amsterdam; Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California; Gallery Guy Pieters,
Knokke, Belgium; Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin; Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
"Sam Francis: The Archetypal Image," opened at the Frederick
M. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California and traveled
to The Fundacion Caja de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery, New York; Manny Silverman
Gallery, Los Angeles; Musee d'Arte, Mendrisio, Switzerland; Richard Gray Gallery,
Chicago; Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam; Galerie Retelet, St. Paul de Vence, France.
Solo monotype shows at Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Island; Thomas
Segal Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Solo shows at ACA Gallery, Münich, Germany; Gallery Guy Pieters,
Knokke, Belgium; Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica; Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam;
Galleria dArte il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy.
Solo shows at Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles (prints); Robert Green
Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California; Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark;
Ikon, Ltd., Los Angeles; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Pascal
Retelet, Saint Paul de Vence, France; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Baukunst
Galerie, Cologne; Pace Editions, New York (prints); Galerie Loeper, Hamburg,
Major retrospective exhibit Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990,
at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles curated by William C. Agee. Traveled
through 2001 to: the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Konsthall Malmö,
Malmö, Sweden; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain;
Galleria Communale dArte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy.
Solo shows at Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström, Malmö; Bruk Kahan
Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida; Richard Gray Gallery, New York and Chicago; Rayuela
Galeria De Arte, Madrid; Ikon Ltd., Santa Monica; Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam;
Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York; Galleria il Gabbiano,
Solo museum shows at Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri; Idemitsu
Museum of Arts, Osaka and Tokyo.
Sam Francis Estate offices/gallery/print studio move to new location
at 5440 McConnell Ave., Los Angeles.
Solo shows at Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco; Baukunst Galerie, Cologne,
Germany; Galerie Guy Pieters, Saint-Paul, France; Alan Cristea Gallery, London;
Galerie Proarta, Zurich; Brian Gross Gallery, San Francisco; Lawing Gallery,
Houston; Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam.
Solo shows at Galerie Andreas Baumgartl, München, Germany ; Lovers
of Fine Arts Ltd., Gstaad, Switzerland.
Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo organizes major Sam Francis exhibition from their
collection that travels to six museums in Japan through 2003 (The Museum of
Modern Art, Toyama; Kawamura Memorial Museum, Chiba; The Museum of Art, Ehime;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima; Oita Art
Museum, Oita.
Solo show at Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland.
Solo shows at Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, California; Artemis Greenberg
Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Guy Pieters, Saint Paul de Vence (France).
Solo show at Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, UK
Solo show at Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
Solo show Prototypes at Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Solo show at Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Solo show at Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström, Malmö, Sweden
Solo show at Galerie Thomas, München , Germany
Solo show at Alanda Arte Contemporanea, Carrara, Italy
Solo show at Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
Solo show at Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland
Solo show at Venice Design Art Gallery, Venice, Italy
Solo show at Martin Lawrence Galleries, San Francisco, California, USA
Solo show at Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Solo show at Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Solo show at Gallery Wild, Frankfurt, Germany
Solo show at Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, UK
Solo show at Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Solo show at, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway.
Movimento Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
Solo show at Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland.
Galerie Flintholm, Verster Skerninge, Denmark.
Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, California.
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris.
LC Galerie, Paris.
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
Galleria San Carlo, Milan.
Galleria Repetto, Acqui-Termi.
College of the Canyons Art Gallery, Santa Clarita, California.
American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich.
Smith Andersen North, San Rafael, California.
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany.
L&M Arts, New York.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam.
Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium.
Galerie Proarta, Zurich.
Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York.
Danubiana Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Coskun Fine Art, London.
Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany.
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris.
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam.
Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich.
Page Gallery, Seoul.
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
Nantenchi Gallery, Tokijo
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley
PST, Berlin.
Martin Lawrence Galleries, New York.
Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
Iris Wazzau, Davos
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam.
Sam Francis Biography compiled by Debra Burchett-Lere
(Assistance and prior research by Nancy Mozur and Beth Silverman)
Sam Francis biography, copyright by the Samuel L. Francis Art Museum, Inc.
(AKA Samuel L. Francis Foundation or Sam Francis Foundation, CA) 2005


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Rolling Stone caught up with Dia Frampton, a finalist on The Voice and arguably its breakout star if you didn't think she'd already broken out as part of Warner Bros. group Meg & Dia. About time we heard that the finalists were up to! (Now let's hear about Vicci and Beverly a lot more than we are.)
What Dia's up to, in this case, is working on her upcoming album Red, whose lead single is "The Broken Ones." The album's out on Dec. 6, and the tracklisting's available here. It's fair to say The Voice has given her a boost in terms of collaborators–in the Rolling Stone interview, she's refreshingly down-to-earth about what exactly her finalist status gave her–and here's the result.
- Meg: The other half of Meg & Dia, also seen making jewelry and escaping mention on episode after episode of The Voice, wrote the song "Hearts Out to Dry."
- Blake Shelton: Is Blake Shelton, and was Dia's mentor on the show. They sing a duet, "I Will," which Dia said she was iffy about because she at first found it–and duets in general–too corny. But this duet did have her "cheeseball-crying," in her words, so at least it's corny in a way that works? (We haven't heard it. We're going off secondhand reactions here.)
- Kid Cudi: On lead track "Don't Kick The Chair," about which we know absolutely nothing else.
- Isabella Summers: Florence + The Machine is a band, and she is part of it. (She's got a side project, Ivan Ink 'n' Isa, in case you'd like to go on a Google tangent.) Her collaboration is called "Bullseye," and it involves guitar somehow.
- Isom Innis: The… touring keyboardist for Foster the People? This is probably the first time you've heard this name if you're not a Foster stan. (First time we did.) But apparently he and Dia "go back years," Frampton said, and they wrote a song called "Billy the Kid." Foster the People aside, that title alone is more interesting than a few albums in 2012 we can think of. It's enough to call this promising, even.


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The Sound of Spring on the Connecticut Shoreline
But in Madison, I fall in love. Somewhere in each of us we have a personal checklist of essentials for the idyllic place to live. Mine includes a beautiful beach, a great bookstore, an art-film theater, and an assortment of interesting restaurants.
The pull here includes a terrific, Euro-style place to stay and a certain je ne sais quoi. This translates to a couple of fun French venues, notably the delectable Bar Bouchée, a gourmet hot spot with a handful of hard-to-score tables, and France-Amériques, where Jacqueline Guizol offers Gallic shirts of every stripe.
My room at the Inn at Lafayette, smack in the middle of town, takes me back to every atmospheric little European hotel I've ever stayed at, with its French doors and pale, pretty room. It's over the dining room, so it's quieter after 11 p.m., but the bonus is having Café Allegre's delicious, Italian-style meals just under my feet. Across the street is R. J. Julia Booksellers, the real deal, where Ralph Nader just happens to be in town for a book signing. In the evening, a petite stroll away, is Madison Art Cinemas, playing the latest foreign and independent films.
All of this is less than a five-minute drive from Hammonasset Beach State Park, with nature trails, more than two miles of sandy shoreline, and rustic picnic sites. At its farthest reach, Meig's Point, ranger Russ Miller tours visitors through his quirky nature center. It's stocked with turtles, mice, and snakes, including an enormous boa whose name morphed from Thor to Thoretta once certain discoveries were made. "The snake feeding on Fridays is very popular," says Ranger Russ. "Standing room only."
Snake feedings aren't exactly my cup of tea, but I realize that I could get into tea in a big way, after a rainy afternoon at Savvy Tea Gourmet, just off Madison's Main Street. "I could blow your mind with amazing oolongs," says tea savant Phil Parda, who's been drinking, thinking, and sharing about tea for more than 40 years. "I could teach you things that would change your life," and I believe him. He's savvy and saturated with antioxidants.
But before I take on anything as drastic as a major life change, I'm headed a few miles west to historic Guilford Green, which unfurls like a flying carpet, a poster child for town commons. I'm unprepared for this spectacle, this Roman Forum of greens, a stupendous expanse of lawn and trees that commands attention and surrender.
Happily, everyone here seems to recognize this, because you'd swear the whole town has turned out to film It's a Wonderful Life: 2012. On this spring day, teenagers are hanging out, children are screaming and running around on the sprouting grass, clusters of every-age folks are meeting and greeting, and there's a pickup soccer game in progress. The dogs are smiling.
It's also a green ringed by an assortment of cafes (Cilantro for freshly roasted coffee), shops (creamy fudge at The Village Chocolatier), and Impressionistic paintings of splashy sunflowers on doorways and fences, courtesy of Brendan Loughlin, the community's resident Van Gogh.
A short walk from town, I'm at the oldest stone house in New England, the 1639 Henry Whitfield State Museum–a little piece of lovely history dropped among a scattering of apple trees. Still more stone buildings crop up farther along the Guilford Town Marina, with its enclave of edifices that look as though they've risen from the ground to cluster around the water, plus a lobster shack that was seemingly dropped in from Maine.
Leaving town on Water Street, I pass marshes waking up with peepers and wide breaks of tall, feathery grass. A quiet stretch of road, it winds under bridges, past handsome Colonials. A discreet sign directs me toward Stony Creek, and I make a quick detour, stopping in front of a magical scattering of houses rising from water.
The Thimble Islands are an archipelago of some 365 islands, depending on the tides and how you define an island. (Does a rock count?) Rest stops for migrating seals and landlubbers of means, they're mostly private, some barely big enough to hold the houses that sit on them. If you'd like to thread your way through these Thimbles–places like Hen, Potato, and Little Pumpkin islands–past Jane Pauley and Garry Trudeau's house, or the spot where Captain Kidd supposedly buried his treasure, you can hop a local boat for a 45-minute narrated tour.
But evening is coming, and I push on toward Branford, the last stop on my shoreline sojourn. There's a decent-size town green here, but what really knocks me out is the veritable United Nations of restaurants surrounding it: French, American, Chinese, Indian, Italian, and Japanese, plus gourmet coffee, ice cream, vegan, and bagel cafés. Once again, I've worked up an appetite, and it seems I've come to the right place. In fact, my appetite for relaxation has been satisfied over and over in this friendly, off-season haven. An image comes back to me: I'm sitting in Willoughby's in Madison, having my morning cappuccino. The door opens, and Belle walks in, carrying a tray. She's 96, a wisp of a woman, and she's wearing a jaunty faux-fur beret and a bright-red scarf. Her makeup is impeccable. "She does this every morning," the woman sitting next to me whispers. "Last week we had a birthday party here for her."
Belle walks over to my table, holding the tray in front of her. "Would you like a cookie?" she asks. "Or a grape? The Kit Kats are all gone." I pick up a few grapes, and she gifts me with a smile. As I step back onto the street, the last thing I see is Belle, blowing me kisses.
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Published: Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.
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After two months, the abandoned sailboat sitting on the beach in the Bethune Beach area of New Smyrna Beach was removed Tuesday.
Cranes and flatbed trucks were onsite to raise the boat from the beach. It was lifted over the dune, placed on a flat-bed truck and hauled away to a landfill.
According to residents, in late May a man from Michigan experienced motor failure and anchored his sailboat off shore. During turbulent water the anchor line snapped and the boat drifted to shore.
The owner implored neighbors to help him push the boat back into water during high tide. After several failed attempts, he took his personal belongings from the boat and abandoned the vessel.
Although it has been an eyesore for many residents, it has been a popular attraction as a photo prop for tourist and residents alike.
-- Dana Racnelli
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With a few strokes, using a much too large paint brush, Jamie captures the style, movement, gesture, and mood of his subject."
Martin Jori (art collector, New York, Switzerland)
Earning my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration at Ringling College of Art and Design, I was exposed to the important abstract expressionists of American and Eastern European who influenced me greatly. Prior to this, I had been doing a lot of monochromatic painting in blue and gray.
After seeing the European abstract expressionist art from the 1940s-1960s, color just exploded in my work–what I call the subconscious color we see around us throughout our lives–like the Vermont foliage– I suddenly could see the bright colors that those artists saw and that freed me–and their gestural abstraction drawing style was similar to what I had been doing.
These abstract expressionists and the cubist masters not only opened a world of color but a world of artistic possibility for me in stretching the viewer's eye and imagination. I still employ the rich, complementary colors of the Eastern European artists who influenced me early in my career. Studying black and white photography in art school also gave me an appreciation of negative space, which is still vitally important to the work I do today.
Because I was so enchanted by the Eastern European style, I spent many years traveling back and forth to Europe, obtaining an English teaching certificate so I could spend as much time there as possible. I just loved how in much of Europe art was appreciated and supported, even in the smallest towns.
My Work
I've always been a great admirer of architects / artists such as Gaudi, and Hundertwasser who drew from nature in their work. I like to work in organic patterns connecting with geometric spaces like those seen in nature, such as wind and water, with intersecting fluid patterns that seem to reproduce each other. I often blend these with contrasting "windows" in a nod to my love of cubism — representing the abruptness of our society. I like my work to be full and active, imitating the variety and action in our world, with the goal of bringing it together harmoniously.
I bring the fluid chaos and variety of our everyday world into focus gradually allowing the viewer to search for a source and make connections. I tend to use childlike characters and colors as well as line work and shapes challenging positive and negative space. With this style I am bridging the gap between the playful (imagery and colors) and the systematic (layering drawing/patterns).
As a natural outgrowth of this, I enjoy the childlike drawings and opinions of children's books as well and have developed my own version that blends my love of writing poetry and creating abstract art. I was heavily influenced by Ralph Steadman and Henrik Drescher.
As I paint, I react to what is there, bringing the viewer from chaos to peace. I want to get the viewer in a playful mood with colors and imagery then systematically break into their visual perception of the world, challenging them to see the layering I've developed.
With my new work in three-dimensional carvings as well as my large format paintings and murals, I am hoping to force the viewer to back up as well as come forward to see the paintings in their fullest possible sense, gained by experiencing it from different perspectives and different levels of focus.


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The field of candidates for the 15th District congressional seat held by Charlie Dent, a republican, will grow again at the end of the week. Already, John Callahan appears to be the Democratic choice to unseat Dent, or, if recent polls are correct, the latest sacrifice to a Dent political machine that has crafted an unbeatable coalition in the Lehigh Valley. In addition, Jake Towne has gone from curiosity to a real candidate as he nears double digits in the polls at a time when the campaign is not yet in gear. Towne is running as an independent.
Now, Dent has opposition from the right wing of his party, more correctly, I believe, the fiscal right wing.
On Saturday, February 6th from noon to 3:00 p.m., Mathew Benol will kick off his campaign at the Moose Lodge #45, 3320 Fox Hill Rd Easton, PA. Mathew Benol will formally announce his candidacy as a challenger to incumbent U.S. Representative Charlie Dent in the Republican Primary in the 15th Congressional District of PA. He is a member and former assistant organizer of the Original 9-12 / Tea Party Group of the Lehigh Valley.
Mat Benol resides in Palmer Township with his wife, Jamie and 2 children; Trinity and Gabriella. He is employed as a production Manager for a packaging company in New Jersey.
According to his press release "Mat is running as a Republican, but understands the issues facing America are due to failures in both the Democrat and Republican establishments. Neither political party seems to be truly interested in protecting America's greatest asset, its citizens."
His release also says "Mat considers himself a Constitutionalist and believes our Federal Government has forsaken the limited Powers granted to it by the United States Constitution. If elected, Mat "will fight for government accountability and real transparency, fiscal restraint, reducing debt, term limits" and pledges to maintain a focus on the issues, not partisan politics. Mat Benol, decided to run because the congressional race in the 15th district "looked like another poor choice between a Tax and Spend Big Government Democrat and a Borrow and Spend Big Government Republican.""
This being America, everyone has a right to run. This being the Republican Party, we will tend to beat one another up. One hopes that whatever the outcome of the primary (and Dent has to be an overwhelming favorite) that Benol supporters will fall in line behind their nominee.
Although it is easy to relate to the beliefs of both Benol and Towne, there are two key things for voters to remember.
1) Neither candidate, realistically, is likely to win the general election in this moderate district with a heavy union background and Democratic registration advantage. If either hurts Dent in the election, a Callahan victory would be likely. That is one more vote for Obamalosi.
2) The campaigns remind you of a dog chasing a car. What do they do when they catch it? What does one 9/12 congressman or 10 do? They can't form a majority caucus. They are unlikely to impact the balance of power—the D's will lose seats but not THAT many. A 9/12 candidate who is elected will have to align with one of the major caucuses.
In both the case of Benol and Towne, I think this will be more of an issue campaign than a chance to win and there is nothing wrong with that---as long as it doesn't lead to a Democratic victory.


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The Chatham Area Transit Authority (CAT) was established on January 9, 1987.
CAT is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of nine (9) members.
These members represent Chatham County, the City of Savannah, and all the
communities therein, including special groups such as the elderly or disabled.
Funding for CAT comes from the Georgia Department of Transportation, the
Federal Transit Administration, a local transit tax, and farebox revenues.
The free Liberty St. Shuttle connects commuters with the parking decks
downtown, and the free dot Shuttle serves Savannah's downtown and Historic
District, connecting to other CAT bus routes at the Transit Center.
The Savannah Belles Ferry service provides daily service between Hutchinson
Island and River Street.
Multiple ride CAT cards, advance tickets, and transit information are
available at the Joe Murray Rivers, Jr. Intermodal Transit Center, 610 W.
Oglethorpe Avenue.
Click here to enter the CAT web site


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Pilates is a type of physical fitness system developed about 100 years ago in Germany.
The program focuses on core postural muscles which help keep the body balanced and are essential to providing support for the spine. This includes teaching awareness of one's breath and spinal alignment. The goal is strengthen deep torso muscles.
The group of muscles in the center of the body (the "powerhouse") is comprised of your abdomen, hips, buttocks and lower back. This is not significantly different from what more modern fitness instructors refer to as the "core".
Control, precision, flexibility and efficient movements are all a part of Pilates. There are to be no uncontrolled or sloppy movements.
Pilates uses a number of pieces of equipment, including the "magic circle", arcs, light weights and mats. Other devices include the "ladder barrel", "Wunda chair" and "Trapeze table". Large balls, resistance bands and foam rollers may also be used.
Be aware that the term Pilates has been declared to be a generic term, so anyone can claim to be an instructor. This method of exercise would certainly benefit from some form of a recognized and respected instructor certification program.
Here's a place in Boston where you can try Pilates.


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Lenovo's ThinkPad line has a proud history of great design, which continues with this new convertible tablet.
The Moto G has long been the go-to phone for people on a budget. Is it still?
A highly customisable 15.6in laptop for getting down to work
It's a return to normal for the ThinkPad X1 Carbon's keyboard layout, and this alone is noteworthy
An Intel Core M CPU makes the ThinkPad Helix 2 run silently, gives it a bit more battery life
An innovative watchband hinge makes the Yoga 3 Pro one of the best laptop convertibles on the market
The perfect little smartphone
Lenovo could do great things with Motorola if the S6000 tablet is anything to go by.
A thin and light tablet that runs Windows 8 Pro, but it's designed for basic tasks only
The Helix is the best tablet product to choose if you want an excellent keyboard dock
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Dal Ferneyhough (MDiv 2000, DMin 2008) and his wife Denise recently sent us this news: After eleven years here in Ambridge, we have become real "old timers" in the TSM community. Now God has seen fit to send us forth to a new ministry. On November 6 we moved south to begin leadership of the new Anglican Fellowship in Orange, Virginia. On the secular side, this is a splendid event. We are much closer to three of our four children and six of our nine grandchildren, and Dal has returned to his native Virginia. Orange is a beautiful small town in a still-rural area about 50 miles south southwest of Washington, DC. We shall miss you, and you will remain in our prayers.
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FDA Wants To Nix Skin Bleach
skin-bleaching cream might cause cancer? Shocking. Johanna Neuman of The Seattle Times reports:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed Tuesday to ban over-the-counter sales of skin-lightening products, triggering a four-month comment period.
The FDA said the creams contain hydroquinone, a drug that, according to studies on rodents, shows "some evidence" of possibly causing cancer.
Citing studies in Africa dating to 1975, the FDA also noted a link between the use of creams containing hydroquinone and the development of ochronosis, which can cause darkening and thickening of the skin, yellowish bumps and gray-brown spots.
Because these creams are a huge part of the U.S. market—the FDA estimates that in the United States, about 65 companies sell more than 200 skin-bleaching products containing hydroquinone—reaction was swift.


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- 03 Sat May 2014
Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival
Each year more than 50,000 people converge on Walnut Street from Broad to 19th Streets, for Philadelphia's most upscale festival. The event features food, entertainment, shopping and family fun. This is the only event where Walnut Street is closed to automotive traffic. Pedestrians stroll Walnut and 18th Streets and explore 120 booths.
When: Saturday, May 3rd from Noon - 6 pm
Where: Walnut Street between 19th and Broad Streets
Cost: Free
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Feels like 100 degrees!!! I'm sweating just reading the forecast in my office. Here's a couple places I'll be this week to beat this Sandhills Summer Heat.
THE ICE CREAM PARLOR in downtown Southern Pines – click for website MAP IT
Go see owner Anthony Parks…he'll have a quick remedy to cool down during these hot days! Open since 1976!
RED DOOR CAFE – Just opened in the Village of Pinehurst – click for website MAP IT
Just in time…the Red Door Cafe serves homemade ice cream, milkshakes & delicious blended smoothies just to name a few.
*If you have any other suggestions of where to beat the heat, I'd love to hear them…
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There were rumors of this all the way back in September, but it looks like a 12.2-inch tablet from Samsung is becoming a reality. A photo of the 12.2-inch slate was posted on a Korean forum, with some specs.
Now we have a report coming out of South Korea, stating that the new "Galaxy Note Pro" or "Galaxy Note 12" slate would launch early next year. ZDNet Korea is now reporting from an unnamed industry source that the slate will feature a massive 12.2-inch 2560x1600-pixel display, 2.4GHz processor, 3GB of RAM, a gigantic 9500mAh battery and Android 4.4 KitKat.
We should see this tablet at CES 2014 in just a couple of weeks time, where we will hopefully have some hands-on time with it.


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According to a new Gallup survey, the Republican party is even more trouble demographically than previously considered, as younger grown-ups -- defined as those falling between the ages of 18 and 29 -- have become significantly more inclined to consider themselves Democrats in the past ten years.
From 1993 to 2003, about 47% of 18- to 29-year-olds recognized themselves as Democrats or were Democratic-leaning independents versus only 42% who self-identified as Republicans or Republican voters. That time frame incorporated the two outlier years of New Gingrich's Republican revolution -- 1994-1995 -- in which Republicans had the upper hand with young adults. Those young Republicans helped Republicans win control of Congress for the first time in two generations, up to that point.
Nonetheless, since 2006, the growing partisan gap among young people and older voters has energized Democrats, who have enjoyed an average 18-point gap in their favor among youth, 54% to 36%.
Most ominously for conservatives, young Caucasian adults -- who long aligned themselves with Republicans -- have adjusted their party affiliation to the more liberal and progressive Democrats.
In the ten years beginning with 1995, younger whites reliably recognized themselves as Republican by a norm of about eight percentage points. Since 2006 however, young whites between ages 18 and 29 have indicated a preference for the Democratic Party in eight of nine years -- disastrous news for a Republican Party increasingly dependent on the white electorate for its votes.
What's more depressing for conservatives' attempts to shift the public policy debate in their favor: the increasing diversity of the electorate in general in addition their growing disfavor among young white Americans. Up until now, Republicans have been able to stymie impending political doom by increasing gains with older votes, particularly whites of retirement age who are consistently more right wing than their children and grandchildren.
But the new Gallup polling suggests that the right wing may quickly end up in an undeniably and perhaps permanently frail position against the Democrats unless it can widen its engagement with more youthful and nonwhite U.S. citizens.


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Life imitates art
By Peter Korn on Mar 12, 2007
Apple has a delightful series of ads comparing Macs & PCs ("I'm a Mac", "and I'm a PC", ...). One of their recent ones focuses on the way Microsoft implements security enhancements in Microsoft Vista (hint: it involves a series of dialog boxes that appear each time some software on your computer does something potentially risky).
In a case of life imitating art, I was recently watching a demo of the JAWS screen reader on Vista. When Eric Damery gave the demo, he used a new projector (new to that Vista installation - the laptop and projector had never met electrically prior to the demo), and so Vista promptly started to auto-install the necessary drivers to support the projector. And being that software installation is a potentially risky endeavor, Vista promptly put up a whole series of dialog boxes, warning the user of the security risk involved and asking the user's permission.
Since JAWS was already running, all of this was spoken aloud in the nifty new (and very human-like) voice of JAWS. To the entire room of around 100 people. In dialog box after dialog box. And while Eric Damery doesn't usually resemble John Hodgman (the "I'm a PC" actor), at various moments working through the technical glitches to get the projector working, the resemblance was rather striking.


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Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials DLC dated, priced
Dishonored's first DLC add-on pack Dunwall City Trials has been officially announced by Bethesda. The publisher has also released screens into the wild. Check them out below.
Dunwall City Trials will be available across all territories from December 11th, launching on PS3 and PC at $4.99 / £3.99 / €4.99, and on Xbox Live at 400 MS Points.
The pack includes ten challenge maps that will put Corvo's tealthy skill-set to the test. Challenges include killing as many targets as possible within a time limit, surviving against waves of Tallboy, guards and weepers, and more.
Your progress will be tracked via global leaderboards, and gamerscore fiends can also earn themselves new achievements and trophies.
An update on the Bethesda Blog reiterated today that the second and third Dishonored add-ons will be full story-driven campaign expansions, and will launch in 2013.
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|Why are these university presidents smiling? Some of them diminsh their schools' championship chances. (AP)
How did we get here? A playoff, really? Wasn't it just last week that Bill Hancock was telling us that a playoff was as close to reality as Jimmy Kimmel was to humor?
I've got a BCS media guide less than a year old with this quote from Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy: "I like the Bowl Championship Series because it gives every team a chance to be rewarded for having a good season."
That quote failed to make it all the way to Boise, Idaho, for some reason.
That's why when they actually announced an honest-to-Delany playoff on Tuesday, it really did seem like it happened overnight. It wasn't too long ago when BCS strategist Ari Fleischer was hired, that he dismissed it as a playoff scheme.
"[A playoff] would be contentious," George W's former press secretary explained, "and create a whole new level of frustration between fans and teams."
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Jerry Palm
The new playoff: Careful what you ask for
At least we've been properly warned. The BCS is dead. Long live the ... what? In that moment 31 months ago, the BCS was employing a lobbyist (former Oklahoma quarterback J.C. Watts). It fired back by setting up aggressive Facebook and Twitter accounts. The BCS hired a soothing mouthpiece (Hancock), a man nice enough to take the gut shots without throwing a right cross.
Look where it got the BCS: Nowhere. Look what it got us: A different kind of uncertain future. Instead of asking how we got here, maybe it's best to ask why we got here? Since Fleischer spoke those words, the SEC won four more national championships while the Big Ten Network has thrived. The Big 12 is on the brink of signing a $2.5 billion TV contract. The Pac-12 has been completely made over to the point that -- at the moment -- it leads everyone in income.
"It seems like the Big Four have kind of dominated," one bowl executive said Tuesday. "You don't have 11 [conferences] anymore, you have four commissioners. Is that gap bigger between the haves and have-nots?"
The answer is yes, except that -- officially -- there are no more haves and have-nots. That was the first bit of news to sneak out of the playoff process when our Brett McMurphy reported it in December. The elimination of automatic qualifying status was supposed to end the sport's revenue segregation. In the future, it will do anything but that.
Removing labels doesn't remove the reality. A playoff probably lessens access for the sport's unwashed. At least makes it more uncertain. That selection committee? Its composition will have to reflect that the Big East is no longer considered a BCS-level conference. The ACC has become less of a factor. That Big Four -- Pac-12, Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 -- are calling the shots. To be precise, the commissioners of those leagues are calling the shots.
There might be not a thing wrong with that. Those 46 schools predominantly play the best football, win the most championships, make the most money. They have the most invested in this playoff. In the coming age, there are more of the have-nots who will matter less, if that makes any sense. And it should. The incredible windfall from a playoff -- estimated at $500 million per year on the high end -- essentially means those have-nots will trade money for access.
Hush money in shoulder pads.
Going forward, there will be six bowls in the playoff rotation. None of them will be particularly anxious to take an unbeaten Marshall or Tulane or Central Florida (for example) when those bowls aren't playing host to national semifinals.
The ground rules haven't been set yet, but if it were up to those six bowls, there would be no qualification standards in non-playoff years. Don't be surprised if the Orange Bowl signs a deal with Notre Dame. The fact that the traditional Rose Bowl won't be played each year is a boost for the Fiesta. It could take a No. 2 team from the Big Ten or Pac-12.
But the Fiesta suddenly has a lot of options after the Big 12 signed a deal with the SEC to play the Champions Bowl. Most of the college football world found out the morning of that announcement that the bowl ground rules had changed.
Never mind the Fiesta had been a loyal Big 12 partner. Never mind that the Fiesta has done more than its share for the BCS by taking/having to take Boise, TCU, Connecticut, Pittsburgh and Utah over the years. (And yes, I know UConn and Pittsburgh were from BCS leagues, but if you don't see the similarity, turn in your fan card.)
It suddenly got a lot more cutthroat out there.
"Will the Cinderella team, will the next Boise State fare better or worse with a selection committee vs. computers and polls?" one commissioner said Tuesday.
The fact that we don't know that answer yet is unsettling. I keep coming back to the 2008 season. The only two major-college undefeated teams that season were Utah and Boise State. Boise State was ninth in the BCS. Utah finished sixth behind three conference champions (Oklahoma, Florida, USC), a conference championship game loser (Alabama) and a division runner-up (Texas). All five had one loss.
A selection committee would have had to supplant at least one of those top four (Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, Alabama). Those four just happen to be owners of six of the past 12 national championships. Considering strength of schedule is going to be considered heavily in the future, has anything really changed?
Perhaps the question should be: Does anyone care whether there will be another Boise State? A four-team playoff is likely to render four of those six bowls meaningless in any given year. You're either in the playoff or you're not. You're either playing for a national championship or in an exhibition.
On the face of it, the commissioners are protected from Congress and any anti-trust challenges just by doubling the championship field. That's why Tuesday was mostly a day for celebration, from the loudmouth in the corner bar to the exhausted media member who covered seven meetings in five months to get here.
Playoff criticism isn't a popular topic at the moment. While the world is praising the first major-college football bracket, there are little people wondering whether they'll ever matter again. Conference realignment means that Idaho and New Mexico State can't be the next Boise. They might not even be FBS in the future as the WAC crumbles. Those two schools on the low end of major-college football must decide if they want to go independent or go to Division I-AA.
At the same time the playoff was announced, the Mountain West was quietly denied BCS status for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The conference's appeal was the MWC's last hope after riding TCU's and Boise State's success close to BCS status.
To see it made official hammered the point that a playoff doesn't necessarily make things equal. It makes them richer. On the same day the commissioners were crowing about more access at the top, they were also denying it below to the MWC.
"The sad part about this, it's all about money now," one bowl executive said. "That has trumped everything. How much is enough money? I think they [commissioners] want to control the bowl system. They want to control whatever it is they do."
That's what prompted a 91-year-old man retired 26 years to take a recent phone call.
"No one is raising the question of, is it the business of a university to be an entertainment industry?" said Bill Friday, former North Carolina president and co-founder of the reform-minded Knight Commission.
No one in power seems to listen to Friday or the Knight Commission anymore. They have good ideas. They have values. But those ideas and values don't pay the bills.
"Let's admit we're out to make money. Let's admit that it distorts the academic enterprise," Friday said. "If you can call yourself a university and acknowledge that, you're setting forth a substantial hypocrisy."
Apparently, we're way past the shame of hypocrisy and profit motive. How did we get here? Death by a thousand pundits, multiple lacerations to the Sagarin, a white flag from the commissioners who were sick of being ripped.
Tuesday could be nothing more than a formalization of an awkward, pregnant pause. There will be problems with a four-team playoff we haven't dreamed of yet. The only way this thing begins to make sense is with an eight- or 16-team playoff. The presidents don't seem to be close to considering either model.
But check back in a year -- with Ari Fleischer, for starters. The master strategist seems to have a good sense of the sport's future.