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Half Marathon #12
Sunday, October 02, 2011
The past few weeks have been very tough for me. I know that most of you know I have had a very tough year. Life just gets tough sometimes. Well I have really been struggling even with my running � Since HTC at the end of August � I have been in a bit of depression. It was caused more from my personal issues but I just haven�t felt like running.
The only thing that has helped me has been signing up for some races � I have run 2 - 10k�s and today I ran a half Marathon. My running has always been a great stress reliever for me and it really has helped. I am thankful I had those races to keep me focused on something besides my Personal problems.
I ran the two 10k�s � one at 53 minutes and the other at 52 minutes
Then today I ran a half Marathon � It was my 12th Half Marathon Since April of 2010. I have had quite a journey and I am so thankful for all those people that have encouraged me and been my friends.
In the last 6 months I have been struggling with Spark people � having a hard time keeping up with the teams that have been there for me. I have many friends and I sometimes feel like I have deserted them, but I know that right now that I need to work on me and my personal issues.
I decided to run the North County Wine Half. I know most of my friends are wondering why I would even sign up for a wine half because I don�t drink wine because of religious reasons.
When I first signed up for the run � I looked at the elevation chart and it looked very hilly � in fact there was more up or down then any level miles. That had me a bit concerned but before the race � I decided I would just go out and run and see how it goes. So, I had no expectations �
I had met a few friends at the race and so I was way back in the pack with them � since it was a chip timed race it doesn�t matter where you start. I would say there was about 500 runners.
I told myself I was going to go out slow and since I knew the first mile was uphill � I just did it slow. Mile 1 pace � 9:15
I was feeling really good, I was passing lots of people but I tried to keep holding back! I didn�t want to go out to fast and even though I was trying to take it easy � I looked down at the garmin and my pace was now 8:50 � I was going to fast but now we were headed downhill and I just kept going and was feeling good. Mile 2 Pace � 8:26 The next few miles were either downhill or level � Mile 3 Pace � 8:37 � I was beginning to think I was going to have a great run but I also knew that there were some hills coming up.
The race started at one winery and the second water station was in the 2nd winery. It was kind a cool running through the vineyard and that made the run fun.
I was still running good. Mile 4 Pace 8:29 � I still felt good and was really a bit surprised that I felt so good with all that had gone on in the last month. My running has suffered. Mile 5 Pace 8:37 .
This was such a beautiful run in the countryside � The weather was perfect for running around 55-60 degrees and cloudy and no rain. A perfect fall day to do a run. Christmas tree farms � lots of green � A few pics � I like taking pictures as I run. They came out a little blurry sometimes but I am running a race.
The run now has turned into rolling hills with some up and some down � at this point in the race its more up and its that way until the end of the race.
Mile 6 Pace � 9:43 This went way up because we ran through the vineyard and a water station and more hills � took a picture of the grapes.
Mile 7 Pace 9:58 � More hills but I am still feeling good � I am running right up them with no problems � I seem to be passing the same runners over and over so we start talking to each other. I love doing this talking to the other runners.
Since this is my 12th Half marathon � it seems like some of the HM the miles go by so slowly this one the miles some to go by quickly. I guess its because there are lots of turns and you don�t have those long stretches of road in front of you. I remember one spot where I could see that there was a big hill in front of me down the road a ways and was so happy when just before the hills starts we turn and no hill. I loved that. Mile 8 Pace 8:53
I still am doing well � I am really amazed I feel so good � I did an 11 mile run about 2 weeks ago and it was very hard and I guess that is why I was so concerned for this race. Mile 9 Pace 10:00 More hills
Around this time we head into the second Vineyard and as we get to water station � I get my water and then the head out � We actually get to run through the barn � how cool is that �
I am still feeling strong � Mile 10 pace � 9:18
I continue through � I am really feeling pretty good � I am thankful I prepared this week with a couple 6 mile runs and my nutrition was good this week. I am sure that is making all the difference. The 10k last week I felt terrible during the run. Not today � I took my Hammer gel � one at the beginning of the race and around 7 miles and I know at the end of the race I had a lot left more on that coming up.
Mile 11 Pace � 10:03 mostly up on the hills right now and then the big hill � The steepest hill of the whole run and they put it at 11.50 into the run.
The hill just kept going up and up!
Not really fair but I guess its like life. Not always fair! I tell myself that I am going to run up it � but halfway up and start to walk. Another runner joins me and we walk up together � one of those runners that I have been leap frogging the entire race � come to find out she is having issues with her Allergies and breathing issues. Well we get to the top and more up but I decide I am going to for it. Get too the 12 mile mark. Mile 12 Pace � 10:27 that hill I walked up.
Time for the home stretch � I push � Push some more Mile 13 pace 8:30
I had a lot left in the tank and I finish strong � 1:59:44 was the garmin time � Not sure of the official time � the gun time was 2:00:45 but I started way back so I know I was under 2 hours � at the beginning of the day � I didn�t think it was possible.
It was a great day with Pizza and Wine after � no wine for me, but shared my wine ticket with my friends � on the way home it began to rain and so I think the fall rains are here to stay. I feel good about today and the accomplishment and I ran a very smart race.
Sorry this is so long but it really was a fun day!!!
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You are a speedy guy! Congrats.
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WTG Mike!
Loved all the pictures!!
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Thank you for sharing. You are such an inspiration. I still remember seeing you at Champoeg park and was in such awe of the Runner that you are. Glad you are sticking to it.
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Great job! I think this was a "therapy" half, huh? You killed it. I'm so proud of you!
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MIke, loved the blog. Love the photo's!! Don't feel bad Mike I've been more MIA than I should be. Take care Mike and know that you can email me or call if you need to!! ((hugs))
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Wow I am so impressed - 12 half marathons! And what a great time! Those pictures are awesome... thanks for sharing them.
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What a wonderful blog Mike!!! I have been MIA a bit lately myself, so please know that I am still here thinking of you!!! You had an awesome race, I am so excited for you! You are such an inspiration!!!! HUGS Friend! Hang in there!
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How beautiful!
Take care of yourself, Mike.
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I'm so glad you had such an awesome race! I loved the pics too! Thanks for posting them.
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Glad to hear you had a good run, and what a beautiful place to do it in. Makes me want to go for a country drive through Yamhill.
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It was so great to see you Mike! Thanks for the great blog - now I can enjoy the scenery all over again. I have to say that was one of the most fun runs I've done. Thanks so much for telling me about it!
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Awesome job Mike! Great race report & thanks for the pics.
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Glad to hear you had a great run! I know how getting out there in the miles can help.
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What gorgeous scenery to run through. It looks like a great run yesterday Mike. Congratulations on #12!
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Mike, what a great race. And whether or not you drink wine, vineyards make for fantastic scenery to run through.
Nice job on your 12th HM! :D
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On running back Leo Mills:
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On wide receiver Malosi Leonard:
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Pope's visit to Cuba shines light on religious freedoms
Pope John Paul II's 1998 landmark visit to Cuba left evangelical pastors all over the island wondering aloud: What about us?
Thanks to the pope's trip, within a year the growing evangelical religious community made history of its own by holding 18 public services around the nation attended by thousands of people — including then-leader Fidel Castro. Even now more than a decade later the televised "Evangelical Celebration" is still considered a watershed moment for Cuban Protestants.
But many others still struggle under a controlling regime to find the space to worship and question whether the pope's visit resulted in any real progress.
"Everyone went to that celebration waiting for religious sermons, and they got political sermons. Even Fidel Castro looked embarrassed," said Carlos Lamelas, a Church of God pastor who fled to Texas last summer after butting heads with the government for years. "I hope now that after the new pope's visit, Evangelical churches can come into their own."
Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Cuba March 26-28 to mark the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the statue of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, the island's patron saint, which was found floating in the bay of Nipe. The last pope's visit was considered fundamental in the history of Cuba's Catholic Church, capping years of modest reforms and paving the way for prisoner releases.
The preparations being made for Pope Benedict raise the issue for the estimated 800,000 Protestants whether non-Catholic churches will benefit from his trip. Pastors and religious experts in Cuba say they hope the pope's stop will provide the momentum to bring up long-standing issues troubling Protestants, such as the ability to build temples and have their religious rights spelled out in law. [More]
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You made the courageous decision to stop self-harming and even managed a certain amount of time without needing to self-harm.
You feel you're making progress, and that you have left self-harm in the past. "Never again" you've told yourself.
And then, out of nowhere, the urge to self-harm returns - and before you know it, you've done it.
And, in that moment, you feel like you've failed.
The important thing to realize is that "it happens".
You are certainly not alone. Undoubtedly at some time or another, most people who stop self-harming for a period of time, will relapse somewhere along the way.
You may have feelings that you have failed or that you are ashamed or angry at yourself for resorting back to the behavior you so desperately wanted to leave behind. Whilst those feelings may be understandable, they do not reflect reality. You do not deserve to feel ashamed or angry at yourself because you have tried your absolute best - and that is all you or anyone else can ask of you. You have shown courage and determination, and for that, you deserve to feel proud.
Did you know that some experts believe that relapsing is actually a necessary and important part of the recovery process, as each time we relapse, we have the opportunity to learn more about our triggers and how to deal with them in a healthier way. Although it is unfortunate that you have relapsed, try to view it an an opportunity to learn more about yourself and to move even further ahead with your healing.
Why did I relapse?
Most of the time, we are looking for answers to our questions. Its perfectly understandable that you want to understand why you self-harmed again - maybe so that you can do something to prevent it recurring in the future.
It appears that most relapses in self-injury are preceded by an event which results in the loss of self-esteem or feelings of control, or when there has been an overload of emotions. There are advantages to becoming aware of what your triggers are, because being aware allows you to start planning how to deal with this issue in the future. Being aware of your triggers can allow you to modify your behavior whenever faced with this trigger (i.e. avoidance, getting support, disengaging etc), as well as highlighting the areas of your life where you need to do more recovery work.
It may be worth trying to identify if there were any life / personal changes or significant events that occurred prior to the strong urge to self-harm returning. Asking yourself some key questions may help prompt you to identify what the trigger actually was. This life may be a place from which to make a start:
- - How have things been going at work / school? Have their been any stressful deadlines / exams to deal with? How have your relationships been with colleagues / friends?
- - How is your relationships with friends / family / partner? Have you recently suffered a break up? Have you been able to live up to their expectations? Has a loved one been unwell? Have you changed therapists? Have you just started a new relationship?
- - How has your health been? Have you been physically unwell? Have you changed any medications? Have you felt depressed / anxious? Have you been sleeping poorly? Have you been drinking too much alcohol / taking drugs?
- - Have you suffered a traumatic event? Have you had an accident? Have you suffered a bereavement? Have you been struggling with new memories?
- - Were you triggered by anything specific? Did you find a film distressing? Did you witness something upsetting? Did someone ask you something? Did someone say something to you? Did something on the news trigger you? Did you see your abuser / someone that looked like your abuser?
- - Have you been involved in a big / stressful event recently? Marriage? Divorce? Birth of a child? Moved house?
You have done your best, and therefore this cannot be called failing! No matter how long you have managed to abstain from self-harm, this is an achievement that no one can take away from you.
It may be worth reminding yourself of just what your achievements in regard to this have been:
How long did you manage to not self-harm for?
Were there times you came close to self-harming, but didnt do it?
What other ways of dealing with pain / strong emotions / memories etc have a learnt during this time?
Do I feel I have learnt anything from this relapse?
Try to remember that this self-harming is a temporary coping mechanism that has come into play. You can and will move on again from here.
Having self-harmed, am I now back at square one?
NO! Absolutely not.
Having lived without self-harm for a period of time (whether a day, a week, a month, or 10 years), you will have learnt ways to cope and live life without self-harming.
There is nothing you can do which could cause this learning to be unlearnt!
Therefore, you are starting with more knowledge than you had when you stopped self-harming for the first time, or the second time or however many times you have stopped in the past.
How do I start again?
You need to decide that you are ready to commit to not self-harming again. We all know how hard it can be to not self-harm, and therefore, unquestionably it can really help if you are committed to the plan of action before you commence it.
One of the most important things is to make sure you take care of yourself and are in the best possible state to continue on your journey after a brief interlude. Therefore, ensure that you:
- Eat well and drink plenty of water.
- Take light to moderate exercise.
- Try to get plenty of rest and sleep.
- Go to see your doctor and have a check-up. See if there is anything he can suggest that may help.
- Dont bottle up your feelings talk to someone, write, paint .whatever helps.
- Do something special for yourself or something you enjoy.
Try to enlist the support of people in your support network - and lean on them for a while if you need to. There is no shame at all in asking for a helping hand.
Keep reminding yourself that you've proved before that you don't need to self-harm, but that you are the one in control of your behavior.


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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 at 12:29 PM (Last Updated: Feb 10, 2012 at 10:33 AM)Real Beanz Caramel Focus is a product with two functions. The first is refreshment, which comes in the form of a pleasant tasting sugar sweetened blend of milk, coffee, and caramel flavoring. On that front, the product is quite good, with a flavor that can definitely hold its own against other caramel flavored iced coffees. The body is a bit lighter than some of the other products out there, which, in this day and age of health conscious consumers, seems like a smart move. Plus, this adds in the overall refreshment of the product, making it something that doesn't weigh you down. The second function of the product is its "focus" formulation, which comes in the form of added eleuthero root, ginkgo biloba, an L-theanine. While these are definitely functional ingredients that are accepted for this purpose, the visual treatment of "FOCUS" on the front panel (which is easy to just glance over), makes us believe that the functional aspect of this product is much less important part of the purchasing decision than the look of the brand or the flavor of what's inside the bottle. We don't mean that to sound negative about this product -- we think that it's a perfectly enjoyable iced coffee even without any added functionality. And that's ultimately enough to make someone want to buy this product again and again.


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Here at Binley we provide aerials and High Definition Freeview installations to homeowners throughout the Midlands area. With over 30 years experience in the industry our fully train and experienced team will provide you with the best solutions available for your viewing requirements.
Binley Aerial and Satellite Services Ltd have merged with Rayler Systems to create RF Digital. We are proud to be one of the country's longest established and most trusted aerial installation companies. Binley Aerial and Satellite Service Ltd can install the latest in Freeview, Sky TV, Sky HD, Sky Plus, Freesat as well as other satellite TV packages such as foreign satellite.
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May 15, 2000
Press Conference Audio Clip
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State University was selected as a regional host site for the 2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. Sixteen sites were chosen nationally. The designation as a host site automatically qualifies the Sun Devils for a post-season berth. It is the first time since 1993 ASU will host a baseball regional in Tempe.
The regional will be held at Packard Stadium, Friday, May 26th through Sunday, May 28th. Each regional site will host four teams in a double-elimination format, the winners advancing to a Super Regional (two teams, best two-out-of-three series at eight sites). Times for the regional are TBA.
"I'm proud of what our players have accomplished this season to put themselves in this position," said head coach Pat Murphy. "I hope our fans will get out and support us."
The field of 64 teams for the 2000 NCAA Baseball Championship will be announced Monday, May 22, live on ESPN at noon MT.
2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Regional Sites: Tempe, Arizona (host Arizona State University) Waco, Texas (host Baylor University) Fullerton, California (host Cal-State Fullerton University) Clemson, South Carolina (host Clemson University) Tallahassee, Florida (host Florida State University) Atlanta, Georgia (host Georgia Tech) Houston, Texas (host University of Houston) Lafayette, Louisiana (host University of Louisiana-Lafayette) Baton Rouge, Louisiana (host Louisiana State University) Miami, Florida (host University of Miami) Minneapolis, Minnesota (host University of Minnesota) Starksville, Mississippi (host Mississippi State University) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (host University of Oklahoma) Upper Montclair, New Jersey (host Rutgers University) Columbia, South Carolina (host University of South Carolina) Palo Alto, California (host Stanford University)


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President Barack Obama had barely settled into in the White House before he was happy to admit he had "screwed up" over one of his choices for a cabinet job after Tom Daschle withdraw his nomination as health secretary over an income tax controversy.
UK News
Has Brown lost the Spring in his step?
Is the Labour Party going to regret not hosting a Spring Party Conference this year?
Drawing up the Battle Lines
Newspapers were in no doubt of the significance of the pre-budget report — this was a defining moment in British politics.
A profound shift in party politics
David Cameron's decision to ditch a major Conservative pledge to match Labour spending plans pound for pound was hailed by commentators as an important step in the politics of the recession, opening up a clear gulf between the two main parties' economic policies but exposing the Tories to considerable risk.
Should "SuperGord" hold a snap election?
Only a few weeks ago the cartoons were showing Gordon Brown paddling up the proverbial creek without a paddle as his poll ratings slumped under an endless succession of bad news. The Tories were practically measuring up the curtains at No. 10.
Truly, madly, deeply: They loved New Brown
Labour was destined for defeat at the next election and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he wasn't going to step down.
Labour: Your time is up. And not just in Crewe
If the message on the streets up here in northern England is anything to go by, Labour will be sent packing at the next election.
Thursday's headlines: Brown "plots fightback"
The Times says Gordon Brown is facing the first electoral test of his premiership. It also features London mayoral candidates Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson. Story here
Heat is on at Reuters Newsmaker with London mayor candidates
** For full coverage of the mayoral election go to our special report **
Safer streets, better housing, more reliable transport….that's what Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick all want for London and it's probably what most Londoners want for their city. But what's the big difference then between "Red Ken", "Crazy Boris" and …"Policeman turned Politician" Brian Paddick?
The Ken and Boris show
Sitting at the Evening Standard's London Mayor debate last night, it occurred to me how cosy this election is. Whoever wins the contest on May 1 will lead one of the world's most high-profile cities with an 11.3 billion pound budget to run public transport, police and fire services and promote the economy of this global financial centre. Yet at times the candidates seem to think they are engaging in some kind of school debating contest.


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A curious cardinal
A female cardinal* was flying around the trees in the backyard late Sunday afternoon. I managed to get several pictures of it. I was at least about 10 m away from it at all times and so couldn't quite see its facial expressions. But later, when I was looking at the pictures on the monitor, I was fascinated by the inquisitive look she had on her face in most instances. Was she looking at me and the camera or monitoring my cat's movements who was also out there at that time?
At one point, she was joined briefly by a male. I suspect they have a nest in the vicinity.
*A northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), to be exact, although as far as I can tell there is no bird called the southern cardinal.


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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Sharrock, Sonny (Warren Harding)
Guitarist Sonny Sharrock forged a path for the electric guitar in experimental jazz by adapting the improvisational style of avant-garde saxophonists to his instrument. In his work with saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, trumpeter Miles Davis, the jazz/rock group Last Exit and as a leader, Sonny developed a personal language which combined the harmonic parallels of free-form jazz with the sheer strength of rock music.
Warren Harding Sharrock was born on August 27, 1940 in Ossining, New York. Sharrock was named after his father, who in turn was named after the twenty-ninth president of the United States. Sonny was raised in a somewhat musical family, with his brother and uncle singing in local groups.
Sharrock grew up listening to popular music and top-forty radio where he aspired to sing. As a teenager, Sonny spent his summers in Harlem where he would spend time with his father. During this time, he was a member of several gangs and often got into fights with rival gangs.
Sharrock first began performing in 1954 while singing with the woo-wop group The Echoes alongside his uncle. The group recorded in December 1957 with a backup band featuring guitarist Kenny Burrell, tenor saxophonist King Curtis, and drummer Panama Francis. The record from that session "Teenage Lover's Lullabye," was never released.
The Echoes performed throughout the New York area, including performing at amateur nights at the historic Apollo Theatre in New York City. Sonny began to listen to jazz in the mid 1950s and became an avid fan of jazz in 1959 when he first heard Miles Davis's experimental album Kind of Blue.
Soon after, Sharrock began to seek out the music of other jazz artists, including tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman and drummer Art Blakey. Within a year, Sonny was hooked and devoted himself to jazz study and performance.
Initially, Sharrock wanted to study the saxophone, but was sidelined due to his suffering from asthma. At the age of twenty, Sonny bought a Harmony acoustic guitar for twelve dollars and began to develop his improvisational skills. He began to teach himself the fundamentals of the guitar and primarily listened to saxophonists rather than guitarists. He also supplemented his education by studying a series of guitar instruction books released by Mel Bay Publishing.
From the start, Sharrock was interested in developing his own voice on the guitar. From September 1961 until February 1962, Sonny studied composition at the Berklee School of Music, although he was unable to read music. It can be argued that this lack of certain preliminary musical skills contributed to his ability to develop a distinctive style.
In 1965, Sharrock relocated to New York City and briefly studied with bandleader Sun Ra. During a visit to Sun Ra's apartment, Sharrock met saxophonists Marshall Allen and Pat Patrick, who were members of Sun Ra's Arkestra. In order to earn extra income, Allen and Patrick performed with drummer Olatunji. Sonny impressed Allen and Patrick with his playing, and arranged for him to become the guitarist for Olatunji's group.
Soon after, Sharrock began to make a name for himself in the city's vibrant jazz scene. Beside his work with Olatunji, Sonny performed in pianist John Gilmore's trio with bassist John Ore. From 1965 until 1967, Sonny performed with pianist Dave Burr and saxophonist Marzette Watts. Also during this time, he performed with saxophonist Byard Lancaster, a former classmate of his from Berklee.
In 1966, Sharrock began to perform with tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, whom he mad met in Philadelphia while performing with Lancaster. The same year, Sonny performed on Sanders' album Tauhid. This album is a milestone in Sharrock's development as a guitarist, as its compositions which relied less on chord structure and had loosely structured arrangements enabled him to expand his understanding of improvisation. Of the three songs on the album, "Japan," percussionist Nat Bettis starts the song by playing a steady beat on a pair of bells before Sharrock enters the song playing a chord pattern which stays constant throughout the song. This grounding by Sharrock allows the rest of the ensemble to add layers on top of him, creating a simple, yet beautiful song which reflects the spirituality that is threaded throughout the album.
By 1967, Sharrock began to collaborate with flutist Herbie Mann and performed with him for the better part of seven years. With Mann, Sonny made appearances at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival. The following year, Sonny appeared on trumpeter Don Cherry's album Eternal Rhythm. After this album, he also left Sanders' group.
The high-profile gig with Mann brought him to the attention of several prominent jazz musicians including saxophonist Wayne Shorter. In 1969, Sonny was featured on Shorter's album Super Nova, which included guitarist John McLaughlin, drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Miroslav Vitous, and percussionist Airto.
In 1969, Sharrock released his first album as a leader, Black Woman The album featured his wife, singer Linda Sharrock, bassist Norris Jones, drummer Milford Graves, pianist Dave Burrell and trumpeter Teddy Daniel. The album included the song "Blind Willie," a tribute to guitarist Blind Willie Johnson, whom Sharrock has named as an influence.
The following year, Sonny made an uncredited appearance on Miles Davis' album A Tribute to Jack Johnson. The same year, he released his second album Monkey-Pockie-Boo, which he recorded in Paris after a tour with Mann.
Sonny found Mann's music to be constricting and ultimately left his group in 1972. Upon leaving, Sharrock assembled his wife, Graves, Daniel, and bassist Sirone and formed the band Sharrock. In 1975, Sharrock released his third album,Paradise. In an interview with critic Ben Ratliff, Sharrock later stated "it wasn't a good album, but its my fault because I couldn't really put the direction together."
Shortly after, the group broke up and Sharrock decided to take some time off from the music industry, only sporadically performing throughout the rest of the 1970s. During his time away from music, Sonny worked as a caregiver for children suffering mental disabilities and as a chauffeur. Sonny and Linda divorced in 1978.
In the early 1980s, Sharrock's work became an importance influence in the burgeoning downtown avant-garde community in New York City. In 1980, Sonny was offered to open for guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer by producer Roger Trilling. He immediately agreed and was introduced to bassist Bill Laswell at the show.
Soon after, Sharrock and Laswell formed the group Material and released the album Memory Serves in 1982. Sharrock and Laswell began to collaborate more often resulting in the group Last Exit, which featured Sharrock, Laswell, saxophonist Peter Brotzmann, and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson.
In 1986, Last Exit released the album Köln. On "Last Call," Sharrock adds distorted embellishments and scrapes that perfectly coincide with Brotzmann's squeals and indistinct honks. The similar tones between Sharrock and Brotzmann mirror how a similar outlook to music can translate to different instruments. The culminating harmonic storm towards the end sees Brotzmann and Sharrock trading sonic lines back and forth resulting in a dramatic finish.
The same year, Sharrock released Guitar, which featured Sharrock recording accompanying tracks and performing on top of them. With the release of Guitar, Sharrock began to experiment with electronics and other modern sounds. The following year, Sonny released the album Seize the Rainbow, featuring bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummers Abe Speller and Pheeroan akLaff. In the late 1980s, he began to perform with the New York based group Machine Gun, which got its name from a 1968 album by Brotzmann.
In 1990, Sharrock performed with guitarist Nicky Skopelitis on the free-improvisation duet album Faith Moves. The same year, Sonny released the more commercially minded album Highlife, which featured bassists Charles Baldwin and Dave Snider, and drummers Abe Speller and Lance Carter.
The following year, Sonny released the album Ask the Ages. The album saw a reunion with Sharrock and Pharoah Sanders and featured bassist Charnett Moffett and drummer Elvin Jones. The album's second track "Who Does She Hope To Be," perfectly highlights the style of Sharrock's late career. Sharrock captures the ballad feel of the song by utilizing a more somber distorted tone on his guitar. Sonny freely improvises throughout the loose chord structure of the song with Moffett playing sparsely to blur the tonality of the song. Between improvisations, the ensemble plays a solemn melody that perfectly weaves the song together.
On May 25, 1994, Sharrock died of a heart attack at his home in Ossining, New York at the age of fifty-three. Sonny passed away just before signing a recording contract with RCA records, his first major label record deal of his career. Prior to his death, one of his final projects was composing and recording the theme song to the animated program Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Sharrock is survived by his wife Nettie and daughter Jasmyn.
Select Discography As a leader
As a leader
Black Woman (1969)
Monkey-Pockie-Boo (1970)
Paradise (1975)
Dance With Me, Montana (1982)
Guitar (1986)
Seize the Rainbow (1987)
Live in New York (1989)
Highlife (1990)
Ask The Ages (1991)
With Don Cherry
Eternal Rhythm (1968)
With Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1970)
With Byard Lancaster
It's Not Up To Us (1966)
With Last Exit
Last Exit (1986)
Koln (1986)
Iron Path (1988)
Headfirst Into the Flames (1989)
With Herbie Mann
Windows Opened (1968)
Concerto Grosso in D Blues (1968)
Live at the Whiskey A Go Go (1968)
Memphis Underground (1969)
Stone Flutes (1970)
Hold On, I'm Coming (1972)
With Material
Memory Serves (1982)
With Pharoah Sanders
Tauhid (1966)
Izipho Zam (1968)
With Wayne Shorter
Super Nova (1969)
With Nicky Skopelitis
Faith Moves (1990)
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Once part of a Benedictine abbey, this church was built in the 12C. The bell tower, façade (whose towers were ransacked in the Wars of Religion) and several capitals were altered in the 19C, but its chevet is still a perfect example of Auvergne Roman..
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To Quit, To Quiet, 2011, 4 min
JB Mabe, Chicago, IL
Experimental, Films in Competition
A christmastime film in my grandparent's living room.
"But to the end of time certain places of the world remain defined for him as the place where those sensations were; and his only possible answer to the question where anything is will be to say 'there,' and to name some sensation or other like those first ones, which shall identify the spot. Space means but the aggregate of all our possible sensations. -William James
16mm, Silent
Directed by JB Mabe (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, April 01 11:00am
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New experimental films from David Gatten, Samantha Rebello, Takashi Makino and J Mabe. Program includes the rarely seen 16mm film Porch Glider(1970, 25 min) by James Herbert.


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Recently a news story highlighted that Boston College head coach Jerry York's acquired another outstanding hockey player.
That player was Brooks Prep School defenseman Connor Moore. Many in the hockey community have watched Moore way back when he was a mite level ice and inline player. Moore played for the Atlanta Fire AAA squad for several seasons.
Some are not aware that Connor's skills in inline competition were sometimes breathtaking to watch. At an early age he had instincts others still do not possess at the 18 and under level. His accuracy and timing have mesmerized opposing coaches and players.
I remember a game years ago when Connor was ten years old and wound up and took a slapshot from just in front of his own goal crease. Two things immediately stood out. His accuracy was phenomenal and his ability to see the split second opening in the opposing goaltenders defense of the net was the other.
He scored of course.
The 1997-born Cumming, Georgia native is in his second season playing for Coach Dave Ries at the North Andover, Massachusetts based school.
The Brooks School is off to a fast start in the New England Prep School Ice Hockey Association's Independent School League Eberhart Division.
Connor plays split season midget hockey for the highly successful Neponset Valley River Rats organization. Observers feel he might grow a little, but he probably will not be a big, physically towering defender. Moore is a player who has shown the capability to quarterback the power play and be an impact player in the transition game. He scored 10 goals and eight assists last season for Brooks and has displayed his potent slapshot.
Moore is a great skater who likes to join the rush and sneak into the play.
"Connor has a great work ethic and skill set. He's dynamic offensively and capable of taking over the game any time he has the puck. He has a good stick, great vision and can really shoot it. Connor's skating ability allows him to lead or join the rush effectively, and to recover quickly if the puck is turned over," said Ries.
Ries added that Moore's defensive game has improved drastically, and his young pupil will continue to progress in that phase of the game.
"He has always had the offensive side, but has really come a long way defensively since coming to Brooks. He's a powerful kid who plays with an edge and is our go-to guy in all situations."
Moore's selection opens up additional opportunities for other Southern based playes who have show significant potential.
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IPO Docket Heats Up
The initial public offering calendar is shifting back into high gear, with 18 U.S. companies expected to debut the next two weeks.
Barring any major hitches for those deals, that would mark the most U.S.-listed IPOs in any two-week period since mid-April.
The increase in activity shows that companies from financial data and services provider Markit Ltd. to renewable-energy business Abengoa Yield PLC remain confident in investor demand for new companies in which to invest. Meanwhile, the next few weeks are short on earnings reports and holidays that can draw investor attention away from IPOs.
"It's a really favorable combination of positive market conditions, a healthy appetite for new issues after a quieter spring and an open four-week period between the Memorial Day and July 4 holidays without the distraction of earnings," said Cully Davis, a managing director in equity capital markets at Credit Suisse Group AG.
Markit expects its June 18 debut will raise up to $1.1 billion on June 18, according to marketing materials for the deal. Abengoa Yield expects its debut will raise up to $624 million after Thursday's close.
Other companies on the docket include MobileIron Inc., which makes tools to help corporate tech departments manage employees' mobile devices, and biopharmaceutical firm ZS Pharma Inc.
It's unlikely every single one of these deals will be a home run for investors, but they'll have the tailwind of broad demand for U.S. stocks that has driven indexes such as the S&P 500 to record highs.
So far in June, the S&P 500 is up about 1.3% while the Russell 2000 index of small companies' shares has rallied 3.2%. Big stock-market swings, which can stymie bankers' and investors' ability to agree on the right price for an IPO, have been notably absent.
A number of recent IPOs have enjoyed healthy demand, such as networking equipment maker Arista Networks Inc., which rose 28% from its June 5 debut through Monday's close. Oil driller Parsley Energy has advanced 34% since it went public on May 22.


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Hair waxes and pomades are the ultimate flexible hair styling products and can give great root lift. But be careful - they are potentially heavy and greasy if not used in the proper quantity. They are typically water and oil emulsions that combine water-soluble polymers with waxy ingredients. They are best used on very short hairstyles and create texture for a piece-y, chunky look. Because they are water repellent, waxes and pomades can be difficult to wash out of hair. Use of a clarifying or purifying shampoo is recommended with waxes.
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2. Gus Fring SurvivesShow: Breaking Bad
Episode: Season 4, Episode 13
Viewers were chomping at the bit to see Gus Fring meet his end after witnessing several failed attempts on his life. Walt's plan seemed to work perfectly, but as the smoke cleared, we saw Fring emerge from the room. Only a dolly shot would cure that moment of disbelief by revealing his charred, blown-up face.


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Sports Gossip: The Best Of 2004
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Water Cooler Topic #5:
Wardrobe & game malfunction
During this year's Super Bowl, consistently one of the highest-rated annual TV events worldwide, singer Justin Timberlake pulled off part of Janet Jackson's outfit to reveal a breast, just as the halftime show was coming to a climax. The incident was later famously referred to by Timberlake as a "wardrobe malfunction," but not before sparking a nationwide reform against incidents that the FCC deemed were "crass" and "deplorable."
Adam's take: The funny thing about that now notorious floppy right jug is that it stole all the headlines from what was easily one of the stupidest plays in Super Bowl history. With Carolina having completed an incredible second-half comeback, and the game late in the fourth quarter, all the Panthers had to do was kick off deep, play defense, and get the game to overtime. Kicker John Kasay stepped up to the T, and proceeded to boom the ball 20 yards wide of the out of bounds, nearly drilling that sound guy who holds the giant plastic dish. The penalty on the play let the Patriots start with the ball on the 40-yard line, putting them in an easy position to set up Adam Vinatieri for his second Championship winning field goal in as many tries. Sure all of America saw a giant boob on that fateful February 1st, but if you watched closely enough, you saw that it was wearing a Carolina Panthers jersey, not a little silver nipple ornament.
Peter's take: Was 2004 the year of the breast? First there was Janet's pierced funbag, then there was Lindsay Lohan's world-famous Internet nipple shot, and in November, Tara Reid stood on a red carpet for at least a minute with her bosom completely revealed. What will 2005 be the year of? The ankle? The toe? The earlobe? Actually, just give me another year of the breast. I'm fine with that. In fact, let's make it a decade of the breast — a dynasty like the '90s Bulls or '80s Celtics. Any objections? I didn't think so.
Water Cooler Topic #6:
Later, Lakers
One of the more underrated sports moments of 2004 was the Detroit Pistons' stunning upset over the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. Both the result and the relative ease with which the Pistons went about dismantling the Lakers were unprecedented for a league that has seen the favorites win over much of the past few seasons. Detroit also broke the mold of needing a "superstar" player to achieve ultimate success in the National Basketball League.
Adam's take: Watching the Detroit Pistons manhandle the Lake Show this year reminded me what basketball used to be like in my youth. The days when players wore headbands to actually catch sweat, defense mattered, and guys followed up their own shots. The hardworking Pistons exposed the Lakers by outworking them, and it was truly refreshing to see a blue-collar team in the NBA be rewarded. Hustle was back in the NBA for good, or actually two months, until our country's finest decided to show up at the Olympic Games and spend more time on their iPod playlists than on rebounding and shot selection.
Peter's take: Everyone spent all season killing Pistons GM Joe Dumars for drafting 18-year-old project Darko Milicic over can't-miss prospect Carmelo Anthony in the 2003 NBA Draft. Anthony went on to average over 20 points per game and lead the Denver Nuggets to the NBA playoffs. Meanwhile, Darko was the 12th man on the Pistons, playing only in blowouts, and sporting a creepy late-'90s "Crazy Town" dyed-blond hairdo. As Darko quietly sat on those sidelines without a single complaint, the Pistons won the NBA Championship. Would Anthony have been okay playing so few minutes and following the Pistons' "system?" Six months later, Darko is still learning, getting better by the day. Meanwhile, Anthony is in the middle of a marijuana charge investigation, has the weight of the Jordan label on his shoulders, and is said to have been a cancer to the U.S. Olympic team in Athens. Is Dumars such an idiot after all?
Peter Schrager recently graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He freelances for several publications including ESPN.com's Page 3. Peter enjoys eating Wheat Thins, drinking Unsweetened Iced Tea, and watching VH1 Classic.
Adam Weinberg is a freelance writer and screenwriter, and a recent graduate of the University of Maryland. He was once thrown out of a NHL game for throwing chapstick on the ice.
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What a perfect weekend for outdoor activities.
Temperatures in the low 60's for highs, and mid 30's for lows. With abundant sunshine and breezy conditions.
On Sunday morning at 3:39AM/EST the Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral on the east coast of Florida. This will be the last night time launch. If all is go.
Clear skies will be present, and it will make for a spectacular view from North Florida and the Jacksonville area.
So set your alarm clocks early if you plan on capturing the lift off.
A major Winter Storm has taken grip on the Mid-Atlantic States. Reports of 30+ inches of snowfall. With drifts of 4 - 5 feet.
They will receive another 3 - 6 inches on Tuesday. Kind of like another coat of white paint on the side of the barn.
Forecast Update:
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high around 60. Breezy, a west wind around 15 - 20 mph, with gusts to 30 mph.
Monday night: Patchy frost after 12 am in some areas. Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Northwest wind between 5 - 10 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high around 56. North wind around 5 mph.
Sunday Night: Patchy frost after 12 am. Mostly clear, with a low around 36. Light north wind.
Monday: Sunny, with a high around 65. East wind between 5 - 10 mph.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.
Tuesday:. Mostly cloudy, with a high around 73. A 40% chance of rain after 12 pm
Tuesday Night:. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. A 30% chance of rain.
On Tuesday we will have an approaching cold front from the west. Combined with a warm front lifting north through the area. This is where our rain chances will develop.
Based on the latest model runs. It doesn't look like a major event. Maybe a quarter inch to half inch of rains with some isolated areas getting close to one inch.
Later in the week, there could be a more significant weather system. There will be more information concerning that with the Sunday/Monday update.


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Bingo Joe Luther, an oldtime friend from the sheriff's force, and Ken Hand and Red Webster and Jim Chambers would spill similar Proctor stories, and he would laugh along with the rest when the tales were relayed but would never admit to any belief that he was not history's greatest legman.
Proctor would tell of his everloving wife, first of many, who was one of the prettiest and no worse than a show bet in the mean department. Shot him five times in the head with a .32 revolver, he said. "Never missed me a time," Proctor would say proudly. Then he would doff his snapbrim hat, part his brown hair, and show you the scars. Or show you some scars.
Bingo Joe Luther told about the time Proctor went on a midnight dice game raid in the black sector, with the vice squad. He was standing on the front porch, dark as pitch, when the cops flushed the game. A woman brushed by Proctor, and he felt a slight sting across the stomach.
"What he really hated," said Bingo Joe, "is he had on this brand-new suit some gambler had laid on him. This gal and her razor made him look like Emmett Kelley."
Proctor said he chased the black whorelady, caught her when she crawled under a culvert, kicked her in the puss a couple times, and then went to City Emergency hospital for a patch job. Holding a towel to his stomach while the doc threaded the needle, he called his everloving.
"Honey, I'm at the ..." he began.
"Listen, you bastard, do you know what time it is?"
"Well, I know, but I've been cut and I'm at the hospital..."
"I don't care where you are or what you've done! It probably was some broad anyway! How many times have I told you don't never wake me up at this hour of the morning!"
Proctor was married, near as he could count, seven times. But he said it actually only amounted to five because he married a couple of them twice.
He married a nice widow lady in Cleburne — refined, religious, rather well-to-do. Jack was the most entertaining person ever in her sheltered Life. Heck, Proctor went respectable. They built a $65,000 home on the outskirts of Cleburne, with a trickling creek running through the backyard; he filled huge closets with fancy sports shirts and jackets, bought a cockatoo named Norton and a Weimaraner pup which, of course, he called a wisenhammer.
The dog, Impervious, was a prodigy. Proctor complained that he often had to stay up late, reading Homer and Socrates to his pet. "If I try to read him The Fort Worth Press, he bites me," said Saintly Julien. "Especially the sports section."
The neighbors complained. "Impervious goes down to the creek and catches all the perch, brings them back, cleans and puts them in the freezer. The neighbor kids don't like it."
To contain Impervious, Proctor had a 6-foot chain fence built around the backyard.
"First day, he cleared it in a single jump," Jack reported. "Went to the creek and brought back a batch of shrimp."
"Fresh water shrimp," he said. "Delicacy of Johnson County."
Proctor said he raised the fence to 7 feet.
"He jumped it the first try. I got to go to eight."
The next day. "Well, he jumped that one, too. The Mexican yard guys say they can't go any higher. Something about Civil Aeronautic regulations. But I'll think of something."
Month later. "What did you ever do about Impervious?"
"I cut off one of his legs."
"That do it?"
"Naw. Damn thing grew back."
This particular Mrs. Proctor owned an auto supply house and a Nash distributorship. Moonlighting from his Cleburne newspaper job, Jack sold cars. Sold a bunch.
"Safest car ever built," he would say, slamming his hand on the fender. "I can show you government reports. During the last calendar year, only two people were killed in a Nash automobile. And they were both bankrobbers, shot at a roadblock."
Bill Rives, then the sports editor of the Dallas News, bought a Nash. So did a couple other newspapermen. Hell, I bought two, one a little Metropolitan made in England. I wondered about gasoline mileage.
"Gas!" Proctor roared. "Whoever told you this car uses gas? It makes gas. Once a week, you gotta drain out a gallon or two or it'll flood on you."
Once my wife, who also had bought a Nash from Proctor, used a fancy Ambassador demonstrator on a loan arrangement and apologized when she returned the car because it was almost out of gas.
"Oh, thank goodness you didn't put any gasoline in this machine," said Proctor, wiping his forehead in relief. "I forgot to tell you. This car runs on frankincense and myrrh."
Once he was late for a dinner party at our house.
"I keep forgetting how powerful this Ambassador is," he told the guests. "I had to stop and have two Cadillac-Buicks removed from my tailpipe."
That marriage dissolved also, then Jack wed what he called a "runner." Occasionally when he'd come home from work, she would have run off. Next was Betty, a ravishingly beautiful brunette whom Jack met through his work with the AAs.
About that time Proctor disappeared from the Southwest press-boxes for a couple months. We would call, and he was vague with his reasons. We thought probably he was recovering from a busted nose or something similar because people were always putting the slug on Proctor. Once, a wealthy rancher named Sexton died, and there was a big hullabaloo over his will, and Proctor covered the court proceedings like he was Heywood Broun at the Scopes trial. The Times-Review readership wasn't accustomed to this Front Page Farrell type of reporting, so Sexton's ranch foreman occasionally looked up Jack and gave him a black eye.
Once Proctor covered a high school game in which the referee, as he was giving the signal about which team won the toss, was seized with a cramp in his leg and fell to the ground writhing in pain. The umpire bent over to administer at the instant the referee desperately kicked his foot in an effort to rid himself of this spasm. He kicked the umpire squarely in the mouth, knocking out a couple teeth. The umpire reeled blindly and fell over the Cisco team captain, who had knelt to tie his shoe. The team captain suffered a broken collarbone.
He complained that he often had to stay up late reading Homer and Socrates to his dog, Impervious.
Proctor, in his game prose, referred to the officials as the Marx Brothers. The referee happened upon the editor on a Cleburne street the next week and whopped him on the eye. Proctor had always told his audience that he had both boxed and rassled professionally, but apparently the referee didn't know that, for he bopped Proctor several times on the eye. Suddenly, as fate ironically decreed, the referee was stricken with the same muscle spasm that had beset him in the game, and he fell to the sidewalk. Proctor then tried to kick the fallen man, but his vision was so blurred by his swollen eyes that he missed, and booted a nearby fireplug instead, breaking a toe.
Anyways, the reason Proctor was missing from the scene, we soon discovered, was that he had all his teeth pulled. When he did show, it was with a sparkling set of storeboughts.
"Fit?" he said. "You ask if they fit? Listen, this job is the marvel of the dental world. They're writing clinic papers on it. These teeth fit so well, they're actually growing into my gums. See this one?" he tapped an incisor, "I had to have the damn thing filled last week!"
For a half-dozen years, Proctor and his Cleburne cohorts sponsored what they called a Mid-Winter Olympics for the Press sports staff. It was an overnight affair, climaxing with a 100-yard dash at dawn which nobody, to my recollection, ever finished. Proctor made his plans in great secrecy, bidding us meet on a Cleburne hotel parking lot at midnight, then guiding the procession through the night to somebody's borrowed lakehouse or ranch house or, on one occasion, an abandoned motel.
Proctor, as Saintly Julien, always dressed in some outlandish costume, insisted that everybody prepare some sort of act to liven the proceedings. As the affair was stag, some of the acts would get a little raunchy. But some were quite artistic. Jenkins and Todd once wrote a complete musical, sang and danced with straw hats and canes. Shrake, Sherrod, and Cartwright once rehearsed a trapeze act called The Flying Huzars in which they appeared in long underwear and capes. Proctor wrote a play, a three-act drama entitled Is This Then All?, cast with his Cleburne chums, including Yere-Yee, and it was so bad it made your eyes water. Proctor turned his cap around backward, wore puttees, sat in a canvas chair, and directed the thing through a megaphone. And then there was the indelible memory of Andy Anderson, old aviator's leather helmet on, goggles and all, lights out and only a flashlight shining up into his somber face as he sang a cappella, Lucky Lindbergh, Hero Of The U.S.A. Great Gawd Almighty, where have all the blossoms gone?
One day, word trickled. Summertime, 1962. Proctor had a sore spot on his gum that wouldn't heal. Biopsy. The Big C. Some of us visited him at Harris Hospital in Fort Worth the night before the operation. He was sitting up in bed, telling of the Dispatch story he once wrote about a guy — now quite prominent in Las Vegas — who hit another on the head with a piece of his car. "Benny Bin-ion, the Bumper Beater, I called him," said Jack. "Binion bought extra copies. Thought it was the greatest thing he ever read."
The operation lasted 10 hours, and they took away part of his jaw and face. Hours later, in the intensive care unit, he was sprawled with tubes and pipes sticking out of his gray skin, and gauze and tape covered his head and face except for one eye, peeping from the whole mess, flicking here and there wildly, like a trapped fawn. The eye swept across me, unrecognizing I thought, until he made a feeble scratching motion with his right hand. A bedside nurse hurriedly put a pad under his hand and a pencil between his chalky fingers. She cranked his bed slightly, and he slowly, laboriously scratched on the pad until finished. He fell back in his bandages, his one eye flickering past me to other restless points. I picked up the pad. In quivering, pitiful hieroglyphics were three words: Need poon tang.
Some of the newspaper wretches around the state pitched in their mites to help pay some of Jack's hospital expenses. His Cleburne job, almost unbelievably, was not waiting for him when he got out of the hospital. Some other calls were made, and Loring McMullen put Jack to work on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram copy rim. Then he moved to a better post — editor of the Richardson Daily News. His visits and calls over the next couple years came a little less frequently, and his newspaper pals, those of us who were not too busy going our own ways, thought it was because of his scarred face. Maybe he was awaiting some scheduled plastic surgery before he would again join the crowd. Because it was his crowd.
Who knows? Maybe The Big C wasn't whipped. One December day in 1965, the Times Herald police reporter called me.
"You ever know a guy named Jack Proctor?"
"Shot himself this morning."
That afternoon, Shrake and Cartwright and some of us were at Nick's A.C. on the waterfront. By then, we knew the police blotter. He had gone to a hock shop on Deep Elm the night before, written a $21 check for a little .22 handgun (painstakingly filling in his checkbook stub correctly!), sat on his apartment couch the next morning, and when wife Betty went to the kitchen for more coffee, she said, he outs with the thing and pop. He was 58.
We drank a couple beers in silence, each reviewing his own mental file on Saintly Julien.
Finally Shrake coughed.
"Son of a bitch could have called somebody."
There were nods around the table and, as I remember, that was all that was ever said.
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State-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise has signed nine agreements since early March to allow firms from Asia and Europe to explore for oil and natural gas.
YANGON: Myanmar has signed a raft of oil exploration deals with foreign companies, including Petronas, state media reported Wednesday, as the reformist government seeks overseas investment to spur economic development.
State-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise has inked nine agreements since early March to allow firms from Asia and Europe to explore for oil and natural gas, the Myanmar Ahlin newspaper reported.
"It was the first time in the history of Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise to sign nine agreements within such a short period," the report said, without giving financial details.
"More significantly, Myanmar national companies were involved in all nine agreements as partners," it added.
The firms are EPI Holdings of Hong Kong, Geopetro International Holding of Switzerland, Petronas of Malaysia, Jubilant Energy of India, PTTEP of Thailand, Istech Energy of Indonesia and CIS Nobel Oil of Russia.
The report said the energy ministry had decided in principle to grant licences to foreign companies to invest in Myanmar only if they cooperate with domestically owned firms.
It said 10 foreign companies were exploring for oil at 24 offshore energy fields, while eight overseas firms — as well as seven joint ventures with local companies — were exploring 20 inland fields.
"Many companies are contacting Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise to explore for oil and natural gas by investing at other inland and offshore fields," it said.
Myanmar's reform-minded President Thein Sein said in a televised speech on Tuesday that economic development would be at the centre of his next phase of reforms, which aim to boost the role of the private sector.
Critics say the rewards of the nation's energy bounty have so far been shared among foreign investors and the regime, rather than its impoverished people.


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Pictures showing Barnsley's beauty will go on show at Barnsley Central Library on Monday.
They were entries in a competition run by Mike and Sue Cameron of Barnsley Civic Trust.
The competition attracted entries from 120 amateur photographers and it is planned to use some of them on the Civic Trust's 2013 'Beautiful Barnsley' calendar.
The winning entries and others will be displayed in the Full Stop Cafe in the basement for several weeks before touring branch libraries. The competition was backed by the Barnsley Chronicle.
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The company announced the move in a blog post today while touting the service's popularity in Europe: "People are listening to more music and from a wider range of artists than ever before, and are giving up on piracy, which is exactly what we hoped would happen. So it's vital that we continue offering an on-demand free service to you and millions more like you, but to make that possible we have to put some limits in place going forward."
The company's ad-free Unlimited and Premium services will remain unaffected and throughout May the Spotify Premium free trial will be extended from seven days to 30. Unsurprisingly, some users were taken aback by the news and have threatened to switch to competing services like Grooveshark or simply go back to piracy. A lot of them are also supportive of the move, though, claiming Spotify is well worth the $5 or $10 monthly fee.
Spotify is working hard to make its way to the U.S. and has reportedly already signed deals with EMI Music and Sony Music Entertainment already. Some speculate that the decision might have come as a condition from U.S. music labels to launch in that territory, but of course the company is not commenting on such claims.


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Spc. William Kumm greets his wife, Jessica, and his 3-month-old son, Lukas, after returning home from Iraq July 3. He was deployed for nine months with C Company, 864th Engineer Battalion.
After nine months of improving the quality of life for Iraqi citizens by paving roads and building structures, 130 Soldiers assigned to C Company, 864th Engineer Battalion, came home July 3 to Fort Richardson.
The Soldiers were greeted by enthusiastic family and friends, who started lining the bleachers in the Buckner Physical Fitness Center gym earlier that morning.
The unit was originally scheduled to fly into Elmendorf Air Force Base around 7:30 a.m., but delays caused them to arrive later in the afternoon.
Even though the number of Soldiers returning was small, the anticipation level ran as high as if an entire brigade was coming home.
Finally, at 3:30 p.m., the Soldiers marched through the gym's double doors. Shouts and cheers ricocheted off the walls, and after a short formation, the Soldiers were released to be reunited with friends and family.
For some returning Soldiers, the reunion was an opportunity to finally meet their children face-to-face for the first time.
"He missed the whole pregnancy," said Katie Hornback, about her husband, Pfc. Aric Hornback. Their son, Logan, was born three weeks prior to the unit coming home. "Today will be the first time he will get to hold him," she said.
The timing of other births within the unit were a little more fortuitous.
Staff Sgt. Glenn Hall's seven-month-old twins, Lexi and Laci, were born during their dad's mid-tour leave. Two days after they were born, however, their dad had to return to Iraq.
"It was hard to let him go," admitted his wife Kathleen Hall.
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Annabella Knavel, 2, clutches her teddy, and waits as patiently as she can before running forward to hug her father, Sgt. Allan Knavel.
The challenge of caring for twins definitely made the second half of his deployment go fast, she said.
The twins were all smiles as they waited for their dad, wearing matching bibs with "Welcome Home, Daddy" messages on them.
For most of the families, the nine-month deployment went by quickly because many of the Soldiers in the unit had already deployed once before.
Deployments have almost become the routine, said Melissa Voreh, the unit's family readiness group leader.
"I told all the wives you have to keep a realistic outlook," she said. "It's not going to be as hard as you think it could be."
Voreh spoke from experience, her spouse Sgt. Joshua Voreh was one of several in the unit who have deployed before. The Voreh's have two children, Kolby, 7, and Shelby, 6.
"I noticed early on, they react to the way I react," she said about her kids. "If I stayed calm and positive, so did they."
She passed that tidbit along as well as other advice to mothers with spouses deployed with the unit. Staying active and keeping busy are the essentials to surviving any deployment, she said.
Xolotzin Medina, the wife of Staff Sgt. Juan Medina, agreed with Voreh's advice. She worked, volunteered and coached teams her three children played on the entire time her husband was gone.
"When I stopped working is when time slowed down," she said. "So I volunteered more and focused on being a stay-at-home mom. But I found I liked the challenge of being a single parent (during the deployment.)"
But as her husband walked through the door, it was easy to see by the look on her face she didn't regret her time as a single parent was over.
After kissing her husband and watching her children launch themselves like mini-rockets into her husband's arms, Xolotzin Medina didn't waste anytime heading out the door to go home.
One hundred twenty-nine Soldiers and their families followed close behind.
Chris Jr. and his sister, Jessica, could not wait to greet their father, Spc. Chris Martinez, after he returned from Iraq, July 3, with 129 other Soldiers who deployed with C Company, 864th Engineer Battalion.


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Trade Data to Provide Clues to Whether Exports are Finally Picking Up the Slack
By Don Curren
Canadian consumers are deeply in debt, and it's time for businesses and exports to take over as the main drivers of growth.
Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem said that last Tuesday. And then-governor Mark Carney said the same thing on Dec. 13, 2010.
August trade data, scheduled for release Tuesday morning, will give some indication as to whether Canada's central bankers are getting what they wish for.
The central bank's continuing quest for the Holy Grail of stronger exports and bigger business investment is threatening to become something of a never-ending story, a recurring refrain that loses some of its credibility every time it gets repeated.
But the truth of the matter is that the situation really hasn't changed. Canada still needs stronger exports and better business investment, and consumers are still struggling with record-high levels of debt.
The last report on trade showed that Canada racked up a merchandise trade deficit of 931 million Canadian dollars ($902 million) in July, with exports declining 0.6% to C$39.2 billion and imports rising at the same rate to C$40.1 billion.
That was better than the roughly C$3 billion deficit recorded in July 2012, but there's still a long way to go before trade makes an overall net contribution to growth.
Economists expect the trade deficit will narrow to C$700 million in August.
The hurdles Canadian exporters have to overcome on a longer-term basis are considerable.
Mr. Macklem explored some of the key obstacles in his speech last week.
One is the fact that Canada's exports go mostly to advanced economies, such as the U.S., rather than emerging markets, where growth is more rapid.
Another is Canada's declining ability to compete, caused by the strength in the Canadian dollar as well as the country's perpetually weak productivity performance.
The country's weakness in exports of machinery, equipment and consumer goods has been offset by strength in commodities, but that effect could be less positive in the coming years, Mr. Macklem said last week.
As for business investment, which the Bank of Canada sees as the other key pillar to growth, it's not likely to strengthen markedly as long as exports falter, he said.
Businesses will wait until demand picks up before investing more in their capacity, and exports are key to that, Mr. Macklem said.


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This award was established by the will of Miss Lesley Lillian Graham to reward outstanding secondary student teachers majoring in English. The donated funds are to be used to assist a student studying towards becoming an English Teacher. The Lesley Lillian Graham Awards are open to fourth year students enrolled in either a Bachelor of Education and are majoring in English or enrolled in a Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) with a curriculum study major in English Education.
Undergraduate Course - Y68 ECU Bachelor of Education (Secondary English)
Application opening date: 2 December 2016
Application closing date: 3 March 2017
Postgraduate Course - W82 Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary)
Application opening date: 1 June 2016
Application closing date: 3 July 2016
Method of application: Application form will be available to download from this web page between application opening and closing dates
Amount: $5000
Frequency: Two instalments of $2500; the first following confirmation of acceptance and the second (final) instalment to be paid after second semester census date, providing eligibility requirements have been met
Method: Electronic funds transfer
Selection is based on academic merit, teaching ability and a personal statement outlining the reasons for choosing English Teaching as a career.
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