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Flower Arrangement and Photograph by Catherine King, August 28, 2004
Flower Arrangement and Photograph by Catherine King, August 25, 2004
Flower Arrangement and Photograph by Catherine King, August 24, 2004.
Flower Arrangement and Photograph by Catherine King, August 19, 2004.
Exuberance is Beauty. -- William Blake
Flower Arrangement (Celosia and Roses) and Photograph by Catherine King, August 15, 2004.
by Jerome du Bois
[This article includes a lively, annotated list of the exhibition artists, with some links and popups, after the jump, as an appendix to the post. (The Herberger's list is here, on their helpful website.) The backstory to this piece is on the sidebar to the right, under the President. Joe Watson's fairly uncritical but otherwise excellent Phoenix New Times article is required background material.]
Seven months ago, two Arizona Art Museum curators -- Marilyn Zeitlin and John Spiak (though their deluded crew soon grew to six) devised a sneaky plan to embarrass the President of the United States by presenting him with a viciously anti-Bush art exhibition deceptively called "Democracy in America" when he came to the university October 13th for his final debate with Senator Kerry. This is the story of how their plan backfired and they were ordered to balance the show, thus exposing them as liars, cowards, and numbskulls. I'll explain that last one first.
One must be breathing real air, outside the hermetic academic fantasy world these people inhabit, to see the deluded hubris that dominates their minds. Ted Decker, Peter Held, Heather Sealy Lineberry, Jean Makin, John Spiak, and Marilyn Zeitlin must have actually believed that ASU President Michael Crow would eat crow: that he would, for one, put a multi-hundred-million dollar public institution, partially dependent on Federal funds, at risk, financially or by public embarrassment; or that, two, he would foul his own professional future permanently by pissing off the President of the United States -- whoever that man turned out to be.
And why would the University President do these things? Because over there on the far corner of the campus at the art museum (big cash cow) six pissants were scheming to promote their narrow hateful agenda through political cartoons while trashing the twin towers of Democracy and America and all who love them both. Riiiight. Read me that list of names again?
The curators huffed about freedom of expression, confident of their eventual victory, while ignoring their own subterfuge: it was never going to be about Democracy in America -- the message was "trash Bush" from the git-go. Zeitlin, Spiak, and some of the artists admit it. (Read Joe Watson's article.) They both commissioned specifically anti-Bush art as far back as February.
To drive home the level of delusion I'm trying to illustrate here, imagine this short scenario: ASU President Michael Crow returns to his office from lunch one late summer day, grateful for the air-conditioning, feeling that pleasant post-prandial glow.
(To his Admin.Asst.): Are there any messages, Lynn?
Lynn: Yes, sir -- here. Nothing urgent. But this one -- (holding up the slip) -- very curious. A Jody Jones called, saying he was a personal assistant to Andrew Card, the Pre--
Pres. Crow: The Chief of Staff in the Bush White House?
Lynn: Yes, sir, that's what he said. He gave me his cell phone number and a White House confirmation code, he said . . . What do you think it's about?
Pres. Crow (spitting it out): It's about art. Get me Marilyn Zeitlin on the phone, please.
That's all it would take to deflate these brave standard-bearers of Bush-hatred, proud heralds of the creative class. Seriously. Follow the scenario and dig the pecking order: President Crow is going to get the full skinny and take steps to correct the situation before he gets back to Jody. That is, a personal assistant to Andrew Card is far more important than Marilyn Zeitlin. It's a fact I bring up for Ms. Zeitlin's sake, to prevent future embarrassment. You greedy fool. (More on Zeitlin's greed below. Brief hint: Cuba, and pleasing Castro.)
How didja all get into this pickle? Because of your dishonesty. If all six of you had started out honoring your own Tocquevillean rubric -- "democracy in America" -- neither President Bush nor Senator Kerry could object to some ugly images. (Both of them are inured to such puerility, anyway, seeing it all the time on the campaign trail -- and, for President Bush, overseas as well. More leftist naïveté, thinking they're shocking.) Instead, by trying to submarine the President of the United States -- a man who has advance teams for his advance teams -- you reveal yourselves as not only powerless (and clueless of the truly powerful), but one-dimensional, intolerant, and deluded art professionals. And I'm going to give you a whupping.
Most of the story is a matter of public record, mainly in Joe Watson's article -- except my little scenario. I don't know exactly who talked to who, and who looked at what. The play probably went Michael Crow to Robert Mills (Dean of Fine Arts) to Marilyn Zeitlin, with maybe a short stop at HSFA Comm.Dir. Stacy Shaw. The upshot: the curators were backed into a corner, so they had to either sacrifice their jobs and the exhibition on principle, or fold like camp chairs, 'fess up, and try to salvage -- balance -- the show. Their answer was typical, predictable, and sad. The new subtitle of the exhibition is "Political Satire Then and Now," and the new artist list, though still dominated by low-concept political caricature, reflects the dilution. It's still anti-Bush, but the loony screaming has been reduced to an infantile whine. (The image they chose for the website is Julian Schnabel's vapid and innocuous Vote.)
To coincide with the final debate in the most important election so far in the Twenty-First Century, during wartime no less, these deep-thinkers -- six professionals, maybe more -- want to join the conversation with debased political humor, most of it stale. Well, they had to; after already accepting so many caricatures and cartoons, what other option did they have? They told everybody they weren't going to send any accepted work back (but they ditched two anyway.) They were stuck with their choices. Once again, they were trapped by their cultural narrowness, academic arrogance, and political ignorance.
Here are the brave new words of the revised press release on the website, which I downloaded August 11th, in toto:
This exhibition presents works that depict political figures and events, some reverential but most satirical.
Contemporary works are placed in historical context to demonstrate the persistence of the satiric spirit in political discourse and the recurrence of similar concerns from the 17th century to the present.
The exhibition presents a variety of media by regional and nationally known artists, and a wide variety of points of view.
The goal of the project is to encourage discussion and raise awareness of the privilege and responsibility of voting.
The exhibition offers the opportunity to bring children to learn about the election process through Kids Voting.
Plus, you can register to vote at the museum through October 2, then VOTE on November 2!
Compare these vapidities with excerpts from the earlier, edgier, now unofficial release put out by John Spiak (courtesty of Joe Watson's July 1 article; I hope you do a follow-up, man):
. . . includes artists -- both regionally and nationally known -- who will "explore what are current images of the United States and of democracy." . . .
"'This is not the America I know,'" the "unofficial" release begins. "That was George W. Bush's response to the initial revelaton of the abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"To encourage discussion, raise awareness of the upcoming presidential election, illuminate some of the underlying issues, and educate visitors about the electoral process, the curators . . . have curated an exhibition of work by contemporary artists . . . Taking a broad approach to the subject, the exhibition will present a variety of media."
I'll leave detailed comparisons to the reader, but clearly there's a difference in emphasis. Abu Ghraib? Whazzat? Look over there: Kids Voting! Yay! What happened to these curators between February, or even July 1, and August? To be as fair to everyone as I can, remember that Joe Watson covered the facts of this before, so I am going to add a few reasonable, but totally unfounded speculations to the round out the narrative.
So . . . let's go back about seven months, and find the place where it all began.
It all began when the year began, when Marilyn Zeitlin, Senior Curator, and John Spiak, learned that Grady Gammage Auditorium, on the ASU campus, would host the third and final Presidential Debate, on October 13, 2004. They decided they would do their best to put together an anti-Bush art exhibition. Months later, as Watson was researching his article, he received a June 24th email from Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs Nancy Neff, which read in part:
There is no 'exhibit' at this stage of the process . . . it generally takes a year, and sometimes as much as two years, to curate a professional exhibit. There are a number of community, academic, and/or cultural programs/events that are being discussed in connection with the debate, but nothing is even close to being finalized . . .
By August 11th it was finalized: the show's announcement went up on the website, to open at the end of this month, with the revised information and artist list. The curators moved fast, and it shows.
Now, I don't know John Spiak's motivation for hating President Bush, or wanting to hide the true nature of the show. I know he started ducking questions around the beginning of July. I speculate it started with standard thirty-something academic liberalism; who knows what turned it virulent? (It's also as if 9/11 never happened to the guy.)
About Marilyn Zeitlin I have better idea: I speculate that she's trying to please her Cuban connections, developed over twenty-plus years, and thus preserve her Cuban art cash cow. Nothing would please Castro more than to see President Bush embarrassed, and he would remember the source. I suspect Ted Decker's motivation is similar, since he's all over the island, too.
I don't know about the other curators' motivations, but if they dissented, it doesn't show.
So Spiak and Zeitlin, beginning in February, solicited some paintings, making their preferences crystal-clear. In Watson's article, he reports that every artist he contacted on the (earlier) artist list knew what the message was supposed to be -- trash Bush, his policies, and the war in Iraq -- and agreed with it.
Everything was purring along until Joe Watson started asking questions. The administration stepped forward. The curators seemed defiant. After the article came out, the juking and jiving began; after July 10, the publicity died down, and now, on August 11, there's a new, diluted exhibition which threatens no one.
I'm going to break it down in some detail in the appendix, but first I must point to two kinds of art one might obtain by taking the notion of "democracy in America" seriously. The first comes from our own parodical preview of the exhibition. We actually thought highly of this idea, and still do:
Cindy Dach, Greg Esser, Wayne Rainey. Depicting A Diptychted Democracy: Operating as "The DocuPosse," this trio collaborated on an ambitious project. They have/will spread out over the Valley to record in still photos every public meeting they are allowed into, from homeowner's associations to school board meetings to city councils to the state legislature committee meetings. In each case, two photos exist: on the left, the panel or those running the meeting; on the right, the audience at the same time. The resulting diptyches should cover an entire wall.
The second example comes from my wife, Catherine King, who described getting excited by doing an installation -- "America the Beautiful" -- around the idea, "Democracy in America." In her piece, she writes about a 24-hour emotional arc, right in the middle of the year, showing her initial euphoria, the excited planning and description in the middle, to the all-too-rapid disappointment when she realized . . . well, read it.
I've gone through the new list, made my judgments, done my adding and subtracting, and here's the way I interpret the new exhibition, based on the data laid out in the appendix and using the criterion of pro-Bush / anti-Bush as my main discriminator:
43 total artists
-5 dropped (*), leaving
38 artists now
-16 who are innocuous, dead, and/or irrelevant (see Legend below)
22 artists now
-19 self-identified as anti-Bush by statement or artwork
3 artists now
-1 unknown political position
2 artists now
-2 artists who submitted anti-Kerry work
Total: 2 anti-Kerry, 19 anti-Bush. the 22 rest . . . educational hand-waving. Of those 19 anti-Bush artists, 14 of their pieces do not refer directly to President Bush. So now we've got 2 anti-Kerry and 5 overtly anti-Bush. There's no real balance, but simply a deflection into historical comparisons and irrelevancies. (Mussolini?) This deflavorizes the venom, and thus the impact. Most of the stuff is wall work, most of it small. Haddock's badly-made papier-maché installation of 98 Nazi-saluting Senator-puppets -- by far the largest piece in the show -- will probably be installed right in the center, souring the mood and lowering the discourse right away. (It's like a crystallization of Godwin's Law.) Dan Collins's piece will be technologically clever and conceptually dated (I cannot tell a lie!). Heide Hesse's gumball/change machine will typically be, as all her pieces are, insulting to American institutions, which seem to still be the best around, despite folks like these three fools. And the rest . . . well, check the list and make up your mind. I have. I see a sloppy attempt by caught-out cowards to cover their cushy, complacent asses.
[Comments are open. Bring it on.]
An annotated, updated list of the artists in "Democracy in America:"
(AB) means Anti-Bush by declaration or example of work
(ASU) means faculty member
(I) means irrelevant to the notion of being pro-Bush or anti-Bush because the artist is dead or innocuous or simply dated
* indicates not on final list
? indicates political position unknown
(AB) Eric Avery -- pychiatrist / printmaker. Inauguration Day, 2001, linoleum block print.
(I) Russell Barnett Aitken -- ceramic busts of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini, from 1940.
(AK) Jim Budde -- ceramics: Kerry In Idaho. Idaho-shaped jug with ketchup bottle panhandle. Budde himself is anti-Bush, though.
(AB) Enrique Chagoya -- a ripoff of Goya, from Disasters of War [what? you think the name similarity gives you access?], but what about this one, which would have been more right on, eh? He also contributes a lithograph entitled Untitled (Road Map), 2003.
* Michael Ray Charles (ASU) -- why did you get aced, man? You're a professor! of art! at The Herberger School!
(AB) Collin Chillag -- local painter (New Babel). This real stand-up guy said last month, "I feel like the show's overt Bush-bashing is going to compromise my work," but he's not going to pull it.
(AB) Sue Coe -- oooh, brand new, from the asafoetidan Brit: "dimensions to come." Title: The Shooting Gallery. Let me guess: a heroic, serious portrait, in trademark woodcut b/w, of the President bravely standing for freedom. Okay, wait, let me guess again . . . She also has an intaglio from 1992 entitled Supreme Court. Also, under the section on "Elections," another charming intaglio entitled They Cut Off Their Hands So They Couldn't Vote, 2000, referring to that infamous event in American history when . . . well, when did they cut those Americans' hands off? I forget . . .
(AB) Dan Collins (ASU) -- I Cannot Tell a Lie, 2004. "Sculpture/monitor installation incorporating Hiram Powers' bust of George Washington [him again!] (1849) from collection of ASU Art Museum [aha! how convenient, Dan.]
(AB) Robbie Conal -- comics / caricature. Read My Apocalips, from an edition of 250. [Hopeful, are we, Robbie?]
(I) William Coupon -- six portraits of presidents. (see sidebar photo)
(I) Honoré Daumier -- lithos of the French Parliament from 1834 and 1849.
(AK) Linda Eddy -- A caricaturist who was commissioned to do five 6" by 6" giclee prints, which must have cost a fortune. Here are three of the titles: Senator Flip-Flop, Kerry's Creation, and Veep Edwards. Two more to come and I can hardly wait. Honestly, how can the candidates survive this devastating show?
* Shepard Fairey -- cartoony painting called Hug Bombs. Definitely anti-Bush. No longer in show. Awwww.
(I) Arthur Habegger -- folk artist? "Three carved and painted wooden canes" (of Gore, Bush, Hillary Clinton), c. 2000. Waow.
(AB) Jon Haddock -- cartoons and caricatures; warlord troll of the resinous heart. One of our main nemisi. We guessed right about his contribution, 98-107, in our first, truly satirical piece about this show.
(AB) Heidi Hesse -- We predicted she'd be in this show, too. We're just shocked her Gummer Hummer isn't going to make it. American Dream is a gumball machine and a change machine, and a drawing, "dimensions to come." You can read my piece about this perpetual non-citizen here.
(I) William Hogarth -- four engravings from the 1750s.
* Charles Howe -- Rockwell knockoffs; innocuous. Gone, no explanation.
(I) Benito Huerta -- Abraxas Suite . . . five boring atmospheric monoprints with a single bill of Latin American currency stuck to the right lower corner of each one. That's it. How does this relate to the subject?
(AB) Peter Kuper -- cartoons and caricatures, including Richie Bush, which shows the President with bloody hands. I warn Mr. Kuper that bloody hands nowadays is often correctly read as anti-Semitic. Even if that is not his intention or motivation, as an experienced NYC graphic artist, he should be hip to this by now.
(AB) Carolyn Lavender (ASU) -- painter. Anatomy of Polarization I & II, 2004.
(I) Roy Lichtenstein -- "Oval Office," 1992. Pretty but irrelevant. (See image on Herberger site.)
(AB) Larry Litt -- film: deadpan face testimonies, a la Channel 5 PublicCam. Before You Don't Vote . . . 2003.
(I) Leopoldo Mendez -- d. 1969. Four Mexican wood engravings from the early 1940s.
(I) Thomas Nast -- two political cartoons about municipal corruption from 1871.
(AB) Mark Newport -- Desert Storm Series, 1991. These are beaded trading cards. Leftovers from a Liza Lou?
* Mear One -- cartoony painting called Let's Play Armageddon. Another ugly anti-Bush image gone, gone, gone.
(AB) Luo Xiao Ping -- stoneware w/glaze: Bush and Saddam from the Times Square Series, 2003.
(AB) James Poppitz -- conceptual / graffiti artist. Pledge Allegiance, n.d., painted wood.
(AB) Alfred Quiroz (ASU) -- painter of the peurile Bushwhacked. Bush snorting coke, money flying around, oil wells. Middle-school doodling by a university art professor.
(AB) Lynn Randolph -- painter of The Coronation of St. George. Joe Watson: "The five Justices who overturned Florida's manual recount of ballots are seen on canvas literally crowning Bush commander in chief, as demons hover and an upside-down American flag waves, signaling the union in distress."
? Michael Rich -- S.O.S., 2003, DVD loop. Don't know nothing. No judgment.
(AB) John Risseeuw (ASU) -- papermaker, printmaker. In 1991, he pulped some American flags and blue jeans into handmade paper, then printed The Bill of Rights on it. Or, at least that's the title. You could look it up.
(I) Mike Ritter -- Scottsdale Tribune editorial cartoonist; added by the curators after a suggestion by an editorial columnist for the same newspaper.
(I) Norman Rockwell -- Never heard of him. Two JFK lithos.
(I) Barb Ross -- six b/w drawings and an oil, all called Portraits of the Presidents and Candidates.
(I) William Sartain -- d. 1924. George Washington, 1899, a 5" x 4" litho. Note to self: bring magnifying glass.
(I) Julian Schnabel -- Vote, 1992 is basically a glorified invitation to a fund-raiser, funky but with its high-art reference nose in the air.
(AB) Gregg & Evan Spiridellis -- these are the guys from jibjab.com. This will a video loop with headphones of the This Land Is Your Land spoof. Rare: only available at every internet port in the world.
* Nancy Spero -- "Choice." Nada.
(I) Paul Szep -- political cartoonist. National Security Blanket. Nixon does Linus. This is ca. 1972.
(AB) Einar & Jamex de la Torre -- De Pilar de M. Pyre, 2003-04. Mexican-American (dual citizenship) glass artists; funky surrealism.
(I) Betty Wells -- courtroom drawings from 1979-1991. (She did the DC snipers, too.) It's about The Judiciary, you see.
Flower Arrangement and Photograph by Catherine King.
Flower Arrangement and Photograph by Catherine King, August 12, 2004.
Flower arrangement and photograph by Catherine King, August 2, 2004.


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On Saturday, two key elements happened (1) President Obama spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation in Ukraine and condemning military action in Ukraine. (2) President Putin received parliamentary approval to use military force in Ukraine and dispatched troops on the autonomous Republic of Crimea. A protest movement has arisen to turn Ukraine toward the European Union and away from Russia.
There is a division between pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian activists after Pro-Russian Ukraine President Yanukovych was voted out of office and new President Aksyonov was voted in by Parliament. Yanukovych took refuge in Russia and appealed to Putin for assistance. Crimea is part of independent Ukraine; houses 2 million Russians; at the port city Sevastopol is the Russian Black Sea Fleet and thousands of naval personnel. Putin reports he has dispatched troops to protect Russian citizens until the socio-political environment subsides.
Ukraine and Russia have a deep history over the Crimea territory. During the 50s, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave the peninsula to Ukraine. When the Soviet Union broke up in the 90s, Crimea was given to independent Ukraine. Insecurity has resulted throughout the years as the Ukraine Presidents control if the Russian fleet in the Black Sea has to leave. Currently there is concern that the new Ukraine President (elected in 2010) will evict the previous agreement established for this key port. The previous agreement extended the presence of the Russian fleet until 2042.
The U.S. condemns military involvement in Ukraine and wants Russian troops to not leave their bases in Crimea. If any concerns arise about the treatment of ethnic Russians and other minority populations in Ukraine, President Obama communicated that this shall be resolved with direct engagement with the Ukraine government and international observers.

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Devin Marquese Bush
Position: DB
Height: 5-11 Weight: 210 lbs.
Born: July 3, 1973 in Miami, FL
High School: Hialeah-Miami Lakes
College: Florida St. (school history) (Bush college stats)
Drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the 1st round (26th overall) of the 1995 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 29 (3459th overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com


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Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald are now engaged, but that isn't all that has changed for this couple. On Thursday, E! Online shared that Ben has already moved in with the family but it isn't exactly how it seems. Ben is living with the Duggar family, but not actually living with Jessa. Instead he is living in the guest house.
Jim Bob shared that Ben moved there a few weeks ago. He even has his own shower in the guest house. Ben and Jessa have already revealed that they won't even kiss each other until their wedding day and so obviously they are not living together the way that some couples do it before the wedding day.
Ben has been living with his parents in Hot Springs, but this is four hours away from the Duggar family. This had to make it really hard for him to see Jessa and also plan a wedding. He made the move to be closer to his girl and it seems to be working out for them. They still have a curfew and are taking chaperones along on their dates. They are not moving any faster now that he lives there and Ben is helping out the Duggars with things that need done.
The Duggar family has courting rules for their family. The girls do not kiss anyone until their wedding day and they also don't even hold hands until they are engaged. They will still be following these rules even though they live on the same property now. The new season of "19 Kids and Counting" will start in September.
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Fans know that Ava has been trying to prove herself to Sonny in order to continue her relationship with Morgan. Sonny walked in on A.J. choking Ava and shot him to save her. It looks like Ava has it worked out where Julian will be the main suspect, and after seeing the Wednesday episode of "General Hospital," fans believe that Ava's plan may work. Of course, this is all based on the assumption that A.J. will not remember the shooting, or die while being treated.
The partnership between Ava and Sonny could be beneficial for both parties. The question remains, will A.J. remember who shot him? Also, "General Hospital" fans are wondering whether or not Michael will ever know the truth about who pulled the trigger.
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Now that a few days have passed and, hopefully, we might be able to see things in a less impassioned light, let's talk again about former NFL coach and current football commentator Tony Dungy. You know him. He answered a question honestly and with all due consideration to all involved yet was vilified for his answer. Ah, yes, tolerance. The insipid calling card of the left.
As a quick recap, Dungy was asked if he would have drafted Michael Sam, an openly gay football player. Dungy said no; he wouldn't want the distractions which would come with such a selection. He didn't say that Sam didn't merit an opportunity or that Sam couldn't play football. Indeed he stressed that he had no problem with the former Missouri standout as such. He simply said that as a coach he didn't want distractions of any kind if they could be helped.
Think what you want about homosexuality or homosexuals in sports, this isn't an invalid concern. Distractions are actually beyond the ability of either Dungy or Sam to control really. Coach Dungy was reflecting that in his response.
At this point we're going to do a bit of conjecture. We won't deny it. Still, the projection we have in mind should make for interesting discussions.
Jerry Johnson, the somewhat less than uncontroversial owner of the Dallas Cowboys, has said that he was close to drafting Johnny Manziel. Manziel was easily the best player on the board for Dallas when his name came up, Johnson reports. Yet the Cowboys went with Notre Dame guard Zack Martin instead.
We have not yet found any detailed reasoning behind the choice, but we will take what we think a good educated guess. We think the Cowboys passed on Johnny Football because they feared the distraction it would cause. Manziel's own self aggrandizing actions since the Cleveland Browns selected him seem to bear out that he can easily be a distraction. His antics have been so overt that Cleveland management felt compelled to request he tone it down a notch. His response was, essentially, nope, won't do it, I'm just being me.
Perhaps this wasn't Johnson's concern. Only what happens with the Browns will bear that out, as only what happens in St. Louis will bear out Tony Dungy's concerns about distractions. But it will be an interesting exhibition season this August in the NFL either, or both, ways.


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Make Dust or Eat Dust..Our Purpose. ..for all of you free spirited competitive folks who run, cycle, swim,and enjoy great wine and live life with a healthy attitude.I am happy to share the 1st Chapter of my latest novel "Orchard Gap!" The entire manuscript is completed and in the hands of the editor. Hope to publish in December!
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Friday, October 3, 2014
Orchard Gap-The Novel
"A rogue biotech scientist secretly nurtures her deadly GMO corn seed while America sleeps…"
Sally Barber is a young Ph.D. working for a global biotech firm in Research Triangle Park North Carolina who is about to be honored as the youngest recipient of the World Food Prize. Her new GMO corn seed will revolutionize milk production.
What the world doesn't know is of her sinister plot to use her "secret" GMO corn seed to kill and destabilize the United States.
An adrenaline producing thriller to capture this mysterious scientist before it is too late takes the reader through the slums of Karachi to the GMO Research fields of Kauai and finds it's ending in tiny Orchard Gap.
Quinn McSpain and Louisa Hawke are called upon again to capture this rogue geneticist who holds the deadliest of secrets and must be stopped before she brings America to…its knees!
Chapter 1
The traffic on Interstate-40 West out of Research Triangle Park was lighter than usual and she was thankful for that.
She still had second thoughts about whether she should even be taking a few days off from her projects in her laboratory in the biotech complex. Yet she was frustrated that certain parts of her latest project were not working out as she had planned.
She was not at all pleased. Sally Barber was accustomed to have her projects work as planned.
Yet she decided that a change of scenery would probably give her a new prospective. One of her laboratory technicians had suggested that she should drive north through Winston-Salem and explore the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The late summer sun felt good as she drove with her windows open. She didn't have any particular destination in mind and liked the notion that she could do as she pleased—at least for a day or two.
Her extremely structured life left little time for any frivolous activities. Her work was her life…her mission…her only reason to exist.
She soon saw the exit sign on Highway 52 to Mt. Airy. She was told that this place was the model for the favorite American television series the Andy Griffith show. She knew that this show depicted an idyllic American life for all to emulate.
She cringed as she drove past the exit. Fuck the American dream, she thought.
As she drove past the state line in Virginia the road began to curve left and right through the switchbacks up the mountain. She accelerated as she liked to challenge herself on dangerous roads.
The traffic up the mountain was light and didn't pose any problems.
What soon did present a problem was the fine mist she soon found herself driving in. She slowed as the mist quickly got thicker and thicker to the point where she turned the fog lights on.
She didn't notice that her grip on the steering wheel tightened.
Soon she found herself completely focused on the solid white line on the road going left to right. The twilight turned to darkness as the cloud deck settled in at twenty six hundred feet and was as thick as pea soup.
Out of the corner of her eye she caught sight on the Blue Ridge Parkway entrance sign in Fancy Gap. She pulled the steering wheel hard to the right and barely made it to the Stop sign at the Parkway entrance.
Her choices were limited to two…left or right.
She chose to go right and proceeded to creep along this new road. Her Google search had enlightened her on the history and facts surrounding this highway that was a national park for all of four hundred and sixty-nine miles.
She continued to drive cautiously as she strained to see though the thick blanket of white she was in.
Suddenly and without warning the cloud deck lifted and the road opened up into fields of farmland and small homesteads that dotted the rolling landscape. She accelerated to the posted speed of forty-five miles–per-hour.
A large sign on the right hand side of road the indicated that she was now in Orchard Gap.
A small paved road intersected with the Parkway that caught her attention. Off in the distance she saw a For Sale sign. She stopped and quickly backed up enough to take a left on this new road.
The sign got closer and closer until she realized that an arrow was pointing further down the road.
She drove for another five miles before another arrow pointed right to a dirt road. She turned on the dirt road and drove for another mile until she came upon the property. What she saw not at all pretty but still brought a smile to her face. The dilapidated farm house appeared to be coming apart at the seams.
The sun was slowly setting as she parked in the driveway and got out of her car. She walked to the side of the house and noticed a small pasture. The other side of the house was reserved for what was, at one time, a garden.
Perfect she thought.
The sounds of children at play soon crested over the small earthen berm to the rear of the property. Two young girls soon bounded over the berm and ran in her direction. They stopped just short of her car and smiled.
"Are you going to buy the Isenhour homestead," the taller of the two girls asked? She smiled before she answered, "Well I don't know I just got here and I need to find out more about this place."
The smaller of the two replied, "well we sure hope you do cause no one has lived here for at least five years." The taller took a few steps closer and held out her hand, my name is Sandra and this is my sister Jane. What is your name?"
She took Sandra's hand, "good to meet the two of you my name is Sally. Do you live nearby?"
"We do", Jane replied, "we live on a little farm on the other side of the bump. We have three milk cows and chickens on our farm. Our Mommy and Daddy are not working right now but we sure hope that they do soon."
She was taken back with the little girl's forthright fullness. Sandra took Jane's hand and turned as she spoke, "we have to go now cause it's suppertime."
"Nice to meet you girls and I hope to see you again at some time."
They disappeared over the berm as she turned to take a harder look at the property. She looked into the ground floor windows and saw broken cabinets in the kitchen as she suspected that the place had been vandalized in more than a few occasions.
The front door came open as she gave it a tug.
Her quick walkthrough only confirmed what she suspected. The house was a dump. Perfect she thought. She left the house and turned to what was the garden area. She knew she didn't need much space to plant what she would plant.
No indeed…her GMO seed of death needed very little space at all.
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Fancy Gap-The Novel--Serialized in The Galax, VA Gazette!
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NEW YORK -- Chicago Blackhawks defensemen Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook will make a guest appearance in the Tuesday, Feb. 25 episode of the hit NBC drama, "Chicago Fire" (10 p.m. ET).
In the episode titled "Virgin Skin," Shay (played by Lauren German) gets an unusual tip from Seabrook and Keith, friends of Clarke (guest star Jeff Hephner) who stop by Molly's, the local bar that is co-owned by several members from firehouse 51. The much-anticipated 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series outdoor matchup between the Blackhawks and the Pittsburgh Penguins at Soldier Field generates excitement at Molly's and the firehouse.
NBC will broadcast the Blackhawks-Penguins outdoor game on Saturday, March 1 at 8 p.m. ET.
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A dad is going to prison for starving his little girl. On Jan. 29, MSN reported that a Wisconsin father has been convicted of abuse and sentenced to five years in prison after he starved his teenage daughter down to 68 pounds. The girl's father's wife and her son also abused the girl -- physically and sexually.
"The girl told investigators she had spent most of the previous five years confined to the basement of her family's home and was denied food despite begging to eat. She said her stepmother beat her and her stepbrother repeatedly forced her to perform oral sex on him," MSN reports.
The prison sentence for starving this girl wasn't easily obtained. The man, you see, claimed that his daughter was the problem -- that she refused to eat and that she has severe psychological problems. He even said that the girl told him that she would kill the whole family in their sleep. The judge, however, felt that the case was pretty clear and while some feel that this man should have been sentenced to more than five years, others are happy to see that this girl has been rescued and that there are consequences for her family.
"[Her dad] was convicted of felony child neglect, felony child abuse, reckless endangerment and causing mental harm to a child. He was acquitted of false imprisonment and misdemeanor neglect. He faced a maximum sentence of 28 years in prison and $55,000 in fines" (MSN).
While it's prison for the dad of the starving girl, her stepbrother will be heading to court in February. Many feel that deserves time in prison for the sick things that he (allegedly) did as well. The girl's stepmother plead no contest to charges brought against her and she will also be spending five years behind bars.
According to NewsMax, the father and his wife each got five years because that's how long the young girl was abused. They got one year for every year that they abused her.
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IF and morning workout recommendations
Hi all,
<cross-posted from main CF forum>
have been lurking here for some time, trying to compile a recommendations on IF and early morning workouts. I found some old threads, but I'm still having a bit of trouble getting a comprehensive understanding:
My details: 33 yo m, 174cm, 85.3kg, Bfat approx 12%
Goals: Leaner (sub 10% ideally), stronger, fitter in that order.
CF: for about 4-5 months. In that time gained strength, lost about 3-4% Bfat, feel awesome!
I workout 5 days a week at 0600, CF Wod (working up to prescribed loads), occasionally something I put together from various CF affiliate sites...
Have been Zoning for about 2-3 months (16 block), measuring pretty well, mostly paleo, but not super-strict.
I have been experimenting with IF, and can't quite work out the post-workout regiment. Currently I don't have anything pre-workout - just get up and go. Post workout, I take 1 tsp of creatine with 200ml water (occasionally add splash of juice for taste, or add some milk). Within the next hour I have 2 fish-oil capsules and a multivitamine...oh yes.. and a cappucino (my one vice...3 a day vice...) Then nothing until 1000-1030. From then I try to wrap my 16 blocks by 1900, under Zone parameters. Weekends tend to be less regimented.
My question is: do I leave my first meal too late? I'm thinking of maybe adding a protein shake post workout, and then not start eating till later, say 1130-1200. I like to have dinner with my family, as that's a special time for us.
Any comments on this approach? Your help would be appreciated .
My big question to you is, how is it feeling? How are you performing? How about body composition?
Working out 5x a week? Damn.....
I would say that on more bodyweight "metcon" days, don't sweat the pwo window.
On heavier lift days (with more muscle damage), put IF on hold and eat pwo.
You can also play around with an IF day on the weekend.
It's really simple....start somewhere....see what happens and adjust as needed....as you can always adjust:
- How many days you IF
- How big your eating window is
- How many calories you eat in a day
- If you do or do not have a pwo meal
- Carb timing after pwo only days/meat and fat others (with veg)
- etc
No one way to IF....just what you can apply to your schedule and see results.
When I first started trying IF a few weeks ago, I did feel the hunger in the morning, but that seems to have reduced. In fact I had a 4 block breakfast earlier in the week, and really noticed how unpleasant it felt in contrast to a 1030 meal. That was after a metcon though, so I might experiment with a breakfast after a heavy lifting day and pay attention to the difference.
So overall my initial experience is very positive, and I agree with the advice on not making it too rigid I dont really want my life to be ruled by food intake, so I interpret your advice as meaning that the Principles of IF are the way to go, and developing the Application Rules of IF should be individual and geared to specific goals.
Just yesterday I re-listed to Robb Wolfs CrossfitLive podcast on nutrition, and what really struck me was his statement about focusing on improving performance as opposed to obsessing about nutrition as long as one is working within the Zone/Paleo/IF parameters. This and both your comments really highlight that as smart approach.
Thanks again for your advice.
How do you subscribe to the Crossfit Live podcast? I went to iTunes, clicked on Advanced-Subscribe to Podcast, and entered this URL:
But then when i go to load it i just get an exclamation point.
Hmm yea, you are probably right. I did a search for Crossfitlive and looking at the date of the posts they are like two years old. Oh well.
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Launched by T-Mobile USA on Wednesday for $249.99 on contract, the Samsung Galaxy Note can be bought for much less if you don't mind getting it from Wirefly.
The retailer is offering T-Mobile's Galaxy Note for $179.99. The deal is available for both new contracts, and upgrades. So there are many potential customers that can save $70 just like that.
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TC TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON; 8 July 1851; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18510708-TC-RWE-01; CL 26: 103-106
Chelsea, 8 july, 1851—
Dear Emerson,
Don't you still remember very well that there is such a man? I know you do, and will do. But it is a ruinously long while since we have heard a word from each other;—a state of matters that ought immediately to cease. It was your turn, I think, to write? It was somebody's turn! Nay I heard lately you complained of bad eyes; and were grown abstinent of writing. Pray contradict me this. I cannot do without some regard from you while we are both here. Spite of your many sins, you are among the most human of all the beings I now know in the world;—who are a very select set, and are growing ever more so, I can inform you!
In late months, feeling greatly broken and without heart for anything weighty, I have been upon a Life of John Sterling; which will not be good for much, but will as usual gratify me by taking itself off my hands: it was one of the things I felt a kind of obligation to do, and so am thankful to have done. Here is a patch of it lying by me, if you will look at a specimen. There are 400 or more pages (prophesies the Printer), a good many Letters and Excerpts in the latter portion of the volume. Already half printed, wholly written; but not to come out for a couple of months yet,—all trade being at a stand till this sublime "Crystal Palace" go its ways again.— And now since we are upon the business, I wish you wd mention it to E. P. Clark (is not that the name?) next time you go to Boston: if that friendly clear-eyed man have anything to say in reference to it and American Booksellers, let him say and do; he may have a Copy for anybody in about a month: if he have nothing to say, then let there be nothing anywhere said. For, mark O Philosopher, I expressly and with emphasis prohibit you at this stage of our history, and henceforth, unless I grow poor again. Indeed, indeed, the commercial mandate of the thing (Nature's little order on that behalf) being once fulfilled (by speaking to Clark), I do not care a snuff of tobacco how it goes, and will prefer, here as elsewhere, my night's rest to any amount of superfluous money.
This summer, as you may conjecture, has been very noisy with us, and productive of little,—the "Wind-dust-ry of all Nations" involving everything in one inane tornado. The very shopkeepers complain that there is no trade. Such a sanhedrin of windy fools from all countries of the Globe were surely never gathered in one city before. But they will go their ways again, they surely will! One sits quiet in that faith;—nay looks abroad with a kind of pathetic grandfatherly feeling over this universal Children's Ball, which the British Nation in these extraordinary circumstances is giving itself! Silence above all, silence is very behoveful!—
I read lately a small old brown French duodecimo, which I mean to send you by the first chance there is. The writer is a Capitaine Bossu; the production a Journal of his experiences in "La Louisiane," "Oyo" (Ohio) and those regions,1 which looks very genuine, and has a strange interest to me, like some practical Odyssey or better. Only a hundred years ago, and the Mississippi has changed as never Valley did: in 1751, older and stranger, looked at from its present date, than Balbec or Nineveh!2 Say what we will, Jonathan3 is doing miracles (of a sort) under the sun in these times now passing.— Do you know Bartram's Travels?4 This is of the Seventies (1770) or so; treats of Florida chiefly, has a wondrous kind of floundering eloquence in it; and has also grown immeasureably old. All American Libraries ought to provide themselves with that kind of Book; and keep them as a kind of future biblical article.— Finally on this head, can you tell me of any good Book on California? Good: I have read several bad. But that too is worthy of some wonder; that too, like the old Bucaniers, hungers and thirsts (in ingenuous minds) to have some true record and description given of it.
And poor Miss Fuller, was there any Life ever published of her; or is any competent hand engaged on it?5 Poor Margaret, I often remember her; and think how she is asleep now under the surges of the sea. Mazzini, as you perhaps know, is with us this summer; comes across once in the week or so, and tells me or at least my wife all his news. The Roman revolution has made a man of him,—quite brightened up ever since;—and the best friend he ever saw, I believe, was that same Quack-President of France, who relieved him while it was still time.6— My Brother is in Annandale, working hard over Dante at last; talks of coming up hither shortly. I am myself very ill and miserable in the liver regions; very tough otherwise,—tho' I have now got spectacles for small print in the twilight. Eheu fugaces,7—and yet why Eheu? In fact it is better to be silent.— Adieu, dear Emerson; I expect to get a great deal brisker by and by,—and in the first place to have a Missive from Boston again. My Wife sends you many regards. I am as ever,—affectionately yours
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Student Ellen Hood to Direct "The Philadelphia Story"
Ellen Hood, a Bethel University senior from Anderson, Ala., will direct the Academic Theatre Production, "The Philadelphia Story," which is scheduled for Feb. 10-11 in Bouldin Auditorium of the Dickey Fine Arts Building.
A theatre major, Hood plans to attend graduate school and earn a master's degree in acting or directing. Her credits include playing: Mandy in "God's Favorite;" Miss Willie in "The Curious Savage;" Anne in "Cheaper by the Dozen;" Miss Prisim in "The Importance of Being Earnest;" and Granny in 'Into the Woods." This is Hood's directorial debut.
"The Philadelphia Story" is a 1939 American comic play by Philip Barry. It tells the story of a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist.
The main character, Tracy Lord, was inspired by Helen Hope Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia socialite known for her hijinks who married a friend of Barry's. Barry wrote "The Philadelphia Story" specifically for actress Katharine Hepburn, who ended up backing the play, which was a great Broadway success. The successful play was Hepburn's first great triumph after several movie flops, which had led to movie theater owners including her on a list of actors viewed as "box office poison." "The Philadelphia Story" was eventually made into a movie starring Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart.
Bethel's Academic Theatre production of "The Philadelphia Story" will be at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 10-11. Tickets can be purchased at the door and are $5 each. Bethel faculty, staff and students get in free with a Bethel I.D.
For more information contact Marion Graham, director of Bethel's Academic Theatre, at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 731-352-4056.


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Sunterra Market
401 9 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2P 3C5
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This Alberta based company's Banker's Hall location provides the best of the best when it comes to quality local products, as do their other retail locations.
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Whether you are busy shopping for a new outfit and need to sit down for a few moments, or you are taking a much needed coffee break during the work day, you'll find something at Sunterra Marche that will keep you going. There is a fresh juice and smoothie bar at the Banker's Hall location, and if you need something with a little more get up and go, grab a cup of their flavoursome coffee that is sure to pick you up and keep you going throughout the day.
Show Up for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
If you enjoy a fresh meal, you'll be happy to hear that Sunterra Marche is open for each of your regular meals. With a 6:30 a.m. start Monday to Friday, you can grab something delicious for breakfast and still make it to the office before everyone else. This location offers a number of cold meal choices including deli style meals with freshly prepared salads, sandwiches and entrées. Hot selections include thin crust pizzas and quesadillas. There is an in-house butcher and you can also pick up freshly cut pork and beef and all of the sides to go along with it here if you want to give your family a special treat.


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Equipment Maintenance
Mechanics have a means to easily perform initial troubleshooting before entering the worksite. CDS also supports simultaneous logins. Multiple technicians can view and discuss the same issue at the same time. CDS also provides a complete off-site log which is never deleted for each crane. Features include: fault history, automatic alerting, crane checklists, maintenance logs, parts browser, electrical diagrams, and secondary component documentation.
Fault History
CDS monitors and collects individual faults as they occur on the crane. These faults are stored locally and then sent to an offsite server for viewing by a technical team. The fault history is easily searchable by date range and crane. Unlike the crane itself, CDS never loses faults. CDS enables exporting your fault history for Excel.See the sample export file as a CSV.
Parts Browser
Parts catalogs provided by the crane manufacturer are available in a searchable form. In addition to having parts access for a crane, maintenance personnel also have the ability to compare parts between cranes.
Diagrams & Components
Full electrical diagrams for each crane are available through CDS for easy remote troubleshooting.
Crane Checklists
Maintenance checklists assist personnel in performing standardized crane maintenance tasks.


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Jordan Bateman: One year later, the HST hangover is still with us
She's back — the ex-girlfriend we just can't put behind us. Yes, the spectre of the Harmonized Sales Tax still looms over our tax system, a full year after it was scrapped. As predicted last January, memories of the HST … Continue reading
Charles Lammam and Milagros Palacios: B.C.'s business-tax regime needs a jumpstart
One item sorely missing from Finance Minister Mike de Jong's recent provincial budget was a plan to make B.C.'s business taxes more competitive and attractive for investment. When the province shifted back to a provincial sales tax last year, the … Continue reading
Letters: Stephen Harper, federal scientists, stat holidays, public-sector workers, crime, vices, Adrian Dix ad, HST, Christy Clark, trucking,
Prime Minister Stephen Harper responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Tuesday March 26, 2013. His government is being investigated for muzzling federal scientists. (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES)
Told you so . . . When Stephen Harper was elected as prime minister, you printed a letter of mine in which I warned that Harper's religiously-tainted, autocratic approach to governing would lead to some undermining of the democratic process … Continue reading
Letters: Vancouver parking rates, towing, CIDA, foreign aid, telecoms, HST, renting versus owning
Parking rates are too high Re: Vision parking policies behind meter madness. I totally agree with the comments of Michael Singh Dharni that the high street-parking rates in Vancouver should be lowered. City hall is just not encouraging anyone … Continue reading
Letters: Transit, Surrey, UBC, bad cop, climate fearmongers, HST, seniors, Challenger jets
At least one reader complained that Surrey and other Fraser Valley communities can't go green if TransLink keeps refusing to improve transit to their areas while spending big bucks on projects in areas already well served by transit, such as the University of B.C. (Mark van Manen/PNG FILES)
Suburbs' needs ignored again Last week Surrey residents awoke to discover they had once again been betrayed by TransLink, which cited money problems in its decision not to place stops in Surrey for the new bus route from Langley … Continue reading
Jordan Bateman: Sneaky Libs want to expand taxation with new PST
When British Columbians rejected the Harmonized Sales Tax in the 2011 referendum, they were promised things would go back to the provincial sales tax normal. But an independent panel has recommended adding taxes to things that virtually every B.C. family … Continue reading
Editorial: Long wait for HST rebates isn't right
Former finance minister Kevin Falcon extended the HST rebate for new buyers on homes up to $850,000 but people are still waiting for their cash. (Nick Procaylo/PNG files)
How many ways can the government come up with to mess with B.C. citizens with the Harmonized Sales Tax? Let us count the ways. First, the B.C. Liberals brought in the much-despised tax after they said they wouldn't and shortly … Continue reading
Province Letters: Transit fares, Evergreen Line, Enbridge pipeline, HST, junk food
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I moved to North Surrey 10 years ago, and have been a three-zone transit pass holder ever since. Our family owns a car, but between my spouse riding her bike to work and me taking transit to work, we only … Continue reading
Province Letters: Adrian Dix, NDP, smart meters, HST, Russia, Sidney Crosby, concussions
NDP leader Adrian Dix speaks to delegates of the annual convention of the Union of B.C. Municipalities in September. (Ward Perrin / PNG files)
After the recent NDP convention, B.C. party leader Adrian Dix is rubbing hands at the prospect of forming the next provincial government. Mr. Dix would reconfigure B.C. according to his particular strain of political thought. Any sort of NDP … Continue reading
Province editorial: To the NDP, money must grow on trees
Interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel's asinine suggestion that B.C. not repay the $1.6 billion it was given by Ottawa to help pay for the introduction of the now-rejected Harmonized Sales Tax shows yet again why voters so rarely pick that … Continue reading


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East Carolina recorded its third non-conference series sweep over the weekend and posted a perfect 4-0 week improving its record to 34-17. The Pirates pitching staff tossed a pair of shutouts and allowed just two runs in four games sporting a 0.50 ERA.
During midweek play, ECU blanked Atlantic Coast Conference member Wake Forest, 9-0, behind a superb pitching performance by Conference USA Pitcher-of-the-Week Zach Woods. ECU followed its win over the Demon Deacons with a 24-0 shutout (eighth of the year) against Delaware State before recording two more wins 7-1 and 6-1 to extend its current win streak to five games.
The Pirates will wrap up the regular season this week playing four games in five days. First up is the home finale against former Colonial Athletic Association for Old Dominion on Tuesday, May 17 before heading to Tulane for the final Conference USA series of the year (May 19-21).
East Carolina Pirates (34-17, 11-10 C-USA)
National Ranking: Receiving Votes NCBWA and USA Today as of May 9, 2011
Current Streak: W-5
Last Week: 4-0
May 11 - Win vs. Wake Forest (9-0)
May 13 - Win vs. Delaware State (24-0)
May 14 - Win vs. Delaware State (7-1)
May 15 - Win vs. Delaware State (6-1)
Upcoming Week:
Home vs. Old Dominion (May 17)
Road vs. Tulane (May 19-21)
Pirate Hitter-of-the-Week
Trent Whitehead, Senior, OF
Whitehead batted an impressive .611 (11-for-18) during the Pirates perfect 4-0 week ... The senior outfielder recorded multiple hits in all four contests, which included a trio of 3-hit games ... Whitehead ranked second on the team with five runs scored, laced a pair of doubles and drove in four on the week ... Against Wake Forest, he was 3-for-4 with RBI single in the fifth and a walk ... He followed that up with his second 3-hit performance of the week in the series opener against Delaware state going 3-for-5 (2 singles, double) with two RBI and three runs scored ... On Saturday he was 2-for-5 with a stolen base and closed out the series with a 3-for-4 outing (2 singles, double) with an RBI, two runs scored and a stolen base ... In the field he recorded seven putouts and has yet to make an error in 109 chances ... On the season, he is batting .325 (66-for-203) which ranks second on the team ... His 66 base knocks and 17 doubles is a team-best, while his four home runs is tied for second ...Whitehead has swiped 12 of 17 base attempts and has raised his average 70 points since April 15, which includes 10 multi-hit games.
Pirate Pitcher-of-the-Week
Zach Woods, Senior, RHP
Woods set the tone for the Pirates impressive week on the mound tossing six shutout innings against ACC member Wake Forest on Tuesday, May 11 in a 9-0 victory, then ECU's seventh shutout of the season ... The senior right-hander scattered four hits, walked two and struck out four (all swinging) en route to his second win of the year ... Woods owns a 2-2 record on the season in 12 appearances (8 starts) ... He has fanned 34, walked 12 and has allowed 15 runs (12 earned) on 37 hits in 36.2 innings for a 2.95 ERA.
Check out the full East Carolina Baseball Notebook online.
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William A.M. Burden was an aviation consultant of wide experience. He had advised Brown Bros., Harriman & Co., on aviation financing, 1928-1932; headed aviation research for Scudder, Stevens, & Clark, 1932-1939; and directed National Aviation Corp., 1939-1941. In 1942-1943 Burden had served as a special assistant to the secretary of commerce, with supervision of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and between 1943 and 1947 he had been assistant secretary of commerce for air. Thereafter he was an independent consultant. He served on the National Aeronautics and Space Council from its creation until March 1959, when he resigned to serve as ambassador to Belgium.
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The way we have addressed this in the design of several business applications is to have a set of domain experts who review all designs in detail. They are considered members of our design team none are computer experts or even use computers outside the work environment but they are experts in using similar software to do similar tasks in the business.
They are very good at helping us anticipate the potential irritations of our design, accelerators needed by expert users, and suggesting ideas for solutions. We continually test with novices to help balance out their biases and sometimes-wacky suggestions.
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Rosanna Seravalli was born in Florence, Italy, where she started ballet classes at the school of Daria Collin. Ms. Seravalli joined the Joffrey Ballet shortly after her arrival in the U.S. She then moved to American Ballet Theatre, where she spent the next 11 years, attaining the rank of soloist. After leaving ABT, Ms. Seravalli joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College.
In 1984, she was invited to Taipei, Taiwan to work with the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, and the National Institute of the Arts. In that same year, she was also invited to teach at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In the years since she has returned frequently to work in both countires.
Since that time, Ms. Seravalli has been visiting ballet mistress for Ballet Phillipines in Manila where she has rehearsed, staged works, and taught classes for the school and the company. She toured nationally with this company throughout the islands as well. Ms. Seravalli has also served as a guest teacher and ballet mistress for the Ballet Municipal de Santiago and as a visiting teacher at its school. In addition, she has returned many times to her home country to teach, stage ballets, and consult.
Ms. Seravalli received a SUNY Research Foundation Grant to travel to the former USSR and to develop methods for adapting Russian classical training for American dancers. In 1995, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to Chile, which allowed her to return to Ballet Municipal de Santiago. She has traveled throughout Chile and neighboring countries giving seminars and master classes.
Ms. Seravalli has worked with the Guangdong Modern Company in Guangzhou, China, and was invited to teach at the University of Melbourne's Victoria College and at the Queensland University of Technology's dance program in Brisbane, Australia. For the past three years Ms. Seravalli choreographed, staged productions, and taught master classes for the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore.
Ms. Seravalli is a tenured professor in the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. She is also a member of the faculty of American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive Program in New York City, is certified in the ABT National Training Curriculum in levels primary through five, teaches regularly at several schools in New York City and throughout the country.
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This is a soft question. I'm not sure if it is appropriate for this site. Would someone who is only interested in string theory benefit from working out the problems in Jackson electrodynamics? I have to decide if I should take a graduate course in electrodynamics that uses Jackson. Would that be a waste of time? I think that it would be most suitable to engineers but I'm not sure. Do you think that an undergraduate course would be sufficient? I'm going to specialize in Theoretical high energy physics.
Would someone who is only interested in string theory benefit from working out the problems in Jackson electrodynamics?
I don't think you can really properly graduate physics without studying Jackson (or equivalent). Classical Electrodynamics is not "only for engineers", but a basic prerequisite for almost every other branch of physics.
For instance, how can you properly understand field theory, when you've never seen Maxwell's equations in their non-tensor form? How well would you understand the concept of a propagator without first seeing how to use a Green's function? Sure you can study string theory without knowing anything about practically anything else (with is I suspect, one of the field's attractions), but you'd end up with an awfully poor education.


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Panama City Beach-- A group of local people and businesses are rallying around a young Panama City Beach boy recently diagnosed with cancer.
7-year-old Ty Mullis, a 2nd grader at Patronis Elementary, was diagnosed with burkitts lymphoma a few weeks ago.
Ty was rushed into emergency surgery. He is currently undergoing chemo and has to travel to Sacred Heart hospital in Pensacola for treatment.
As you can imagine, the costs associated with the cancer treatment and travel is immense. That's why some friends of Ty's mother, Marie, have organized a benefit at Pineapple Willy's.
The benefit will be Sunday night at Pineapple Willy's from 6 until 11:30pm with live music all night.
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TC TO JANET HANNING; 19 January 1837; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18370119-TC-JCHA-01; CL 9:120-123.
5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, 19th Jany, 1837.
My dear Jenny,
It is a long time since I heard directly of you at any length, or since you heard of me. To-day, tho' I have not the best disposition or leisure, I will send you a line: there are no franks going, but the post is always going, and you will think a shilling might be worse spent.
We are very sorry, and not without our anxieties, at the short notice Robert sent us on the Newspaper; however, the next week brought confirmation on the favourable side, and I persuade myself to hope that all is getting round again to the right state.1 Your health is evidently not strong; but you are growing in years, and have naturally a sound constitution; you must learn to take care and precautions, especially in the life you are now entered upon, in that huge den of reek and Cotton-fuz,2 where one cannot go on as in the free atmosphere of the Country. Exercise, especially exercise out of doors when it is convenient, is the best of all appliances. Do not sit motionless within doors, if there is a sun shining without, and you are able to stir. Particularly endeavour to keep a good heart, and avoid all moping and musing, whatever takes away your cheerfulness. Sunshine in the inside of one is even more important than sunshine without.
I do not understand your way of life so well as to know whether the Goodman is generally at your hand; in that case, you have both a duty to do, and society in the doing of it independently of others; but, at all events, frank communication with one's fellow-creatures is a pleasure and a medicine which no life should be without. Be not solitary, be not idle! That is a precept of old standing. Doing one's duties (and all creatures have their solemn duties to do), living soberly, meekly, "walking humbly before God,"3 one has cause to hope that it will be well with him, that he shall see good in the world. Write me a letter, full of all your concerns and considerations, when you can muster disposition. I shall always be right glad of such a message. In fine, I hope the spring weather will come and set us all up a little.
Before going farther, let me mention here that a Newspaper came to me last Monday, charged nineteen shillings and some pence! I, of course, refused it. I got a sight of it, but could not ascertain accurately from whom it was. Either Alick or your Robert, I thought, but the Post people had stamped it, and sealed it, and smeared it all over, and marked it "Written on," so that I could make little of it. The cover, I noticed, was in writing paper scored with blue lines: it strikes me it may have been the Manchester paper, after all, and no writing in it but the copper-plate on a piece of one of Robert's account papers. At all events, when any more Newspapers come, the law is that the cover be of vacant blank paper; likewise we will cease writing or marking except two strokes on the cover, lest we get into trouble by it. I refused this nineteen shillings fellow; and they will be able to make no more of it, but it will make them more watchful in future. I mean to write into Annandale to the like effect.
The Doctor sends me word out of Rome that he wants a Dumfries Herald4 forwarded to him thither. I have not yet arranged that; but I am thinking of having this Herald (if the days answer) sent by Manchester, thro' your hands. I think it would reach you on Saturday. You could look at it, and send it on, the same day, whereby no time at all would be lost. The two strokes would always be a satisfaction. We shall see how it answers. If any such Herald, then, come your way, you know what to do with it.
It is several weeks since I had any direct tidings out of Scotland, except what James Aitken's address of the Courier gives me: it had the sign of well-being on it last week. I am to write thither shortly, having a letter of the Doctor's lying here, as I have hinted. The Doctor says he had written a few days before to our Mother, which has made me less anxious about speed with this to her. He is well and doing tolerably well,—getting what Practice in Rome, a beginner can expect. The Cholera was about gone from Naples, and the panic of it from Rome, so that more English were coming in, and he hoped to do still better. You can send this news into the Scotch side when you have opportunity.
All people here have got a thing they call Influenza, a dirty, feverish kind of cold; very miserable, and so general as was hardly ever seen. Printing-offices, Manufactories, Tailor-shops, and such like are struck silent, every second man lying sniftering in his respective place of abode. The same seems to be the rule in the North, too.5 I suppose the miserable temperate of climate may be the cause. Worse weather never fell from the Lift [sky], to my judgment, than we have here. Reek, mist, cold, wet; the day before yesterday there was one of our completest London fogs,—a thing of which I suppose you even at Manchester can form no kind of notion. For we are exactly ten times as big as you are, and parts of us are hardly less reeky and dirty; farther, we lie flat, on the edge of a broad river: and now suppose there were a mist, black enough, and such that no smoke or emanation could rise from us, but fell again the instant it had got out of the chimneyhead! People have to light candles at noon, coaches have torch-bearers running at the horses' heads. It is like a sea of ink. I wonder the people do not all drop down dead in it,—since they are not fishes, of a particular sort. It is cause enough for Influenza. Poor Jane, who misses nothing, has caught, fast hold of this Sunday last, and has really been miserably ill. She gets better these last two days, but is weak as water; indeed, the headache at one time was quite wretched. She has been, on the whole, stronger since you saw her, but is not at all strong. As for myself, I have felt these wretched fogs penetrating into me, with a clear design to produce cough; but I have set my face against it and said No. This really does a great deal, and has served me hitherto. I hope to escape the Influenza; they say it is abating.
The Book is done, about a week ago: this is my best news. I have got the first printed sheet, since I sat down to write this. We shall go on swiftly, it is to be hoped, and have it finished and forth into the world, say, before the month of March end. I care little what becomes of it then; it has been a sore Book to me. There are two things I was printing lately, which I would send to you, but there is no conveyance. I fear you would do little good with them, at any rate; not five shillings' worth of good, which they would cost you. Besides, if Robert or you want to see them, you can let him go to a Circulating Library and ask for the last Number of the London and Westminster Review. In it he will find a thing called Memoirs of Mirabeau: that thing is mine. The other thing is in Fraser's Magazine,—half of it; the other half will be in the February Number: it is called Diamond Necklace.
This latter was written at Craigenputtock a good while ago. I see your Manchester Editor6 feels himself aggrieved by it, worthy man, but hints that there may be some mistake on his part; which I do very seriously assure him is my opinion, too. Other Editors, it would seem, sing to the same tune.
After this Book is printed, it remains uncertain what I shall do next. One thing I am firmly enough resolved on: not to spend the summer here. I will have myself rested, and see the fields green and the sky blue yet one year, follow what may. Many things call me towards Scotland; but nothing can yet be determined upon. If I go Northward, Manchester is a likely enough step for me; nay, perhaps the Doctor may be home from Rome, and we shall both be there! Nothing is yet fixed; we will hope all this.
And now, my dear Sister, I must bid thee good day. Salute Robert from me with all manner of good wishes. I have known him as a "fell [clever] fellow" since he was hardly longer than my leg. Tell him to be diligent in business, and also (for that is another indispensable thing) fervent in spirit,7 struggling to serve God. Make thou a good wife to him, helping him in all right things by counsel and act. Good be with you both! Jane sends you all good wishes from her sick bed, and "was grieved to hear of what had happened you." She will be better in a day or two.
Your affectionate Brother, /
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Minnesota May Not Care About Bachmann's 'McCarthyistic Witch Hunt'
In fact, it might help her.
Michele Bachmann's claim that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and fellow Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison may have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood has members of her own party calling her a modern-day Joseph McCarthy, but it doesn't seem to be slowing her down. She told the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Monday, "We cannot elevate political correctness over national security," and other Republicans have also come to her defense, most notably Newt Gingrich, who wrote a lengthy Politico op-ed condemning the "recent assault on the National Security Five" (that's the brawny new brand name for Bachmann and the other representatives). Though Democrats are hoping that the controversy will help sway Minnesota voters in the fall, there's little evidence that her so-called "witch hunt" will have an impact in her home district.
On a national scale, Minnesota's 6th District isn't the most conservative, but it's the most staunchly Republican district within the state. It was one of only two congressional districts in Minnesota to vote for John McCain in 2008, and as the National Journal notes, recent redistricting only made it more solidly red. Bachmann's opponent, wealthy Minneapolis hotel owner Jim Graves, has tried to capitalize on the controversy by rolling out Facebook ads demanding that she "end her McCarty-style witch-hunt" and penning a Huffington Post editorial in which suggests she's abandoned the people of Minnesota's 6th district to "chase wild conspiracy theories in a self-interested attempt for fame and publicity." He's positioned himself, on the other hand, as a moderate Democrat who could be an acceptable alternative for Independents and Republicans fed up with Bachmann's antics.
But Graves still faces an uphill battle. Recently he released an internal poll of 505 likely 6th District voters that shows Bachmann leading with 48 percent of the vote to his 43 percent, with a 4.4 percent margin of errors, which would put him within striking distance of the three-term representative. However, Bachmann has a huge fund-raising advantage over Graves. She's raised more than $14.8 million in the current election cycle, making her one of the House's top fund-raisers. While Graves is said to be worth more than $100 million, he's only raised $404,000, and $250,000 of that was his own money.
Incredibly, being condemned by fellow Republicans could actually work to Bachmann's advantage. In 2008 Bachmann's Democratic opponent got a fund-raising bump after she said in an interview with Chris Matthews that members of Congress should be investigated for their "anti-American" leanings. However, as the Minnesota Post reports, that was only weeks before the election and many locals aren't following the race that closely in the middle of the summer. Bachmann already claims in her fund-raising e-mails that "being such a vocal proponent of constitutional conservatism and an opponent of President Obama and his disastrous policies has made me a top target for defeat this year." Being called out by leading congressional Republicans supports her persecution narrative and could energize supporters outside of Minnesota. The Star Tribune reported in July that 80 percent of Bachmann's campaign contributions came from donors who don't live in the state. Bachmann's campaign announced on Tuesday that from July 1 to July 25, when the scandal was unfolding, she still managed to raise more than $1 million.
Many Washington insiders who have known Huma Abedin for years are horrified by Bachmann's accusations. However, her base doesn't have the same aversion to her calls to investigate an unknown, oddly named aide, and their contributions will fund ads that can turn Minnesotans' attention to other issues in the fall.


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For those that dont know .til's contain the backgrounds in EMI. So its a background viewer/saver.
It supports both the pc and ps2 versions of EMI as well as the demo. You can view backgrounds, save backgrounds and batch-rip all backgrounds to either jpeg or bitmap.
I've released it mainly because I was bored last week and also because John_Doe's excellent EMI Resource Viewer doesnt support the PS2 .til's and doesnt do batch ripping of .til's. Many, many thanks to John_Doe for his .til specs :)
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This was a great historical film!! I learned more about Ghengus Kahn from this film than I had in others. This is to be one of a trilogy to tell his story. I definitely recommend this movie to any History Buffs, War fanatics or foreign movie fans. I will be seeing the rest of this saga!!!
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2004 Hardcore Custom Chopper title in hand
- Year : 2004
- Color : Black with blue and green flames
- Mileage : 2,000 Miles
- Location : Montgomery, PA, US
- Price : $ 13,000
Product Description
I\'ve owned this bike for about two years now and have done quite an
extensive amount of overhaul to it to the point where this is
practically a brand new bike. Now that I am done all my work, I have
decided that it\'s probably best that I sell this bike to pay off several
bills and help pay for my wedding that is coming up. Title is clear and
in hand.
What I\'ve done since purchasing the bike with about 1,400 miles on it:
-new rear tire
-new starter motor with lifetime manufacturer warranty
-brand new paint job (has hardly seen the sun yet)
-brand new LA Choppers street sweep exhaust
-new v-twinn mirror
-new headlight
-new battery
-all new wiring throughout
-new bullet rear turn signals
-performance machine shifter and brake peg
-new hand levers
-new avon grips and pegs
-new fender hardware, tank grommets, exhaust gaskets, fork seals and oil
-new spark plugs
-brake lines bled and brake fluid replaced
-new rear axle
-new speedometer
-new handlebars
-new air cleaner
only original parts on the bike are the engine, belt, trans, rims,
frame, fenders, tank, brake light and front tire. The engine is a 1650cc
revtech and this bike gets up and goes.
Over 10k has
gone into this bike in the past two years but I think the bike speaks
for itself. All the work was done by a local shop who\'s main specialty
is custom bikes.
I will not ship
this bike unless you organize for you own carrier. This bike is a rigid
with very low ground clearance so if you plan to trailer it please make
sure you either have a low and long enough ramp or several guys to lift
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You will find this MC Nudes Daisy teen photos irresistible. Watch big tit blonde Daisy rubbing her pussy and showing off her beautiful sexy butt. Daisy, an eighteen year old model likes tattoos. She believes that getting a symbol inked on your skin for life is the ultimate expression of one's individuality – and this is the case for her. Daisy is actually the homebody type – she likes cooking, watching TV, going to the movies and reading lots of books on her days off. Blonde with an hour glass figure, Daisy wants to be a professional model someday.