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The Marco Sullivan faithful eventually figured out that it had its "Marco rocks" signs backwards and got them arranged properly for their hero to finish 18th at Friday's Birds of Prey downhill at Beaver Creek.
Fellow Californian and North Lake Tahoe High School alumnus Travis Ganong rocked a wee-bit more, tying for 16th as the Americans popped two into the top 30 on the first day of World Cup racing in Beaver Creek.
"I had one goal and that was to send it, ski as hard as I could and see what happened," Ganong said. "I did exactly that. I pushed the line. I really charged. I wanted to try to do something really big. I made some mistakes, which kind of happens. I'm pumped up and I'm in a great place. It'll get better and better."
Ganong, 24, logged the second-best finish of his young World Cup career. He was 12th in last season's Kitzbuehel, Austria, downhill last winter. This was his best finish at Birds of Prey - he was 33rd last year at Beaver Creek. And Friday certainly was a big improvement on a disappointing downhill outing last weekend up in Lake Louise, Alberta, (39th).
"Last week in Lake Louise was tough, so it's good to be in the points here," Ganong said. "I know I'm competitive. I know that I made a bunch of mistakes and I'm still competitive with mistakes. When I have a mistake-free run, I'll be up there, so I'm happy."
Ganong said that he got bounced around a bit on The Brink, the steep descent at the start of the course and was roughed up on the Talon Turn. That set up his major mistake at The Pumphouse, which is halfway down the course, near the giant-slalom start.
His good performances in training, Gagnon said, helped him. However, he still admitted understandably to having some nerves on race day.
"I try to block that out, but I'm definitely more anxious," he said. "Definitely, the nerves are raised, a little elevated. I wish I did not notice that, but in every sport, every athlete experiences it."
Sullivan continued his revival Friday. After finishing third in the Lake Louise downhill last weekend, he made his green-hatted fans happy cruising into the top 20.
"Obviously, a really tight race today," Sullivan said. "I thought I skied pretty well. I had one bobble in the middle coming around the corner before Screech Owl and that killed my speed for the flats. I was 1.4 seconds back, I think. (Winner Christof) Innerhofer had an amazing run. With the mistake I had, I can't be too disappointed with that."
Sullivan, 32, had been battling back problems, which helped make his 2011-12 a disappointment. His last podium before this season was in Wengen, Switzerland, back in 2009.
The 13-year veteran of the U.S. Ski Team had all of 35 World Cup points in downhill last year. He's eighth with 73 already this season. Welcome back to the world of higher expectations, Marco.
"I was shooting for top 10," he said. "I think I'm only a couple of tenths (of a second) from top 10 with a big mistake. I don't think they were too high."
Ted Ligety hit the worst number in ski racing: 31st place. That was a frustrating result for the Park City, Utah, native, who is hoping to challenge for the overall World Cup title.
"I skied well through the top, but I made a couple pretty big mistakes," Ligety said. "That was that."
While Ligety understandably has high expectations, of the speed events, super-G, rather than downhill, will be more fruitful for him in the search for points. Ligety hasn't finished in the top 30 of a downhill since last year's downhill here.
Steven Nyman made a bit of a move, going from 45th bib to 33rd. Andrew Weibrecht made quite the charge. He finished 37th while starting 63rd.
Ryan Cochran-Siegle punched in at 39th. Meanwhile, Aspen's Wiley Maple, 22, finished 50th in only his second World Cup start at this venue. For the Aspen Valley Ski Club product, this is still a learning experience.
"Especially on the World Cup speed circuit the courses stay the same," Maple said. "So the guys with more experience do better usually. You have to go through the motions the first few years. Obviously, there's potential to ski well and punch it in there. My best place to do well is here because I've run this track the most. Learning and seeing new World Cup tracks is pretty wild. It's crazy going down each run and knocking seconds off."
Sports Editor Chris Freud can be reached at 970-748-2934 or email@example.com.


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ACACIA NILOTICA Acacia Gum - (Arabic Gum)(LINN.) All the gum-yielding Acacias exhibit the same habit and general appearance, differing only in technical characters. They are spiny shrubs or small trees, preferring sandy or sterile regions, with the climate dry during the greater part of the year. The gum harvest from the various species lasts about five weeks. About the middle of November, after the rainy season, it exudes spontaneously from the trunk and principal branches, but the flow is generally stimulated by incisions in the bark, a thin strip, 2 to 3 feet in length and 1 to 3 inches wide being torn off. In about fifteen days it thickens in the furrow down which it runs, hardening on exposure to the air, usually in the form of round or oval tears, about the size of a pigeon's egg, but sometimes in vermicular forms, white or red, according to whether the species is a white or red gum tree. About the middle of December, the Moors commence the harvesting. The masses of gum are collected, either while adhering to the bark, or after it falls to the ground, the entire product, often of various species, thus collected, is packed in baskets and very large sacks of tanned leather and brought on camels and bullocks to the centres of accumulation and then to the points of export, chiefly Suakin, Alexandria, or - in Senegambia - St. Louis. It is then known as 'Acacia sorts,' the term being equivalent to 'unassorted Acacia.' The unsorted gums show the widest variation as to size of fragments, whiteness, clearness, freedom from adhering matter, etc. It is next sorted or 'picked' in accordance with these differences. There are many kinds of Acacia Gum in commerce:


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series statementTranscribed from the trial documents into HTML by Addison-Wesley, and translated into XML based on the HTML and print editions by the Beck Center staff. Van Pelt's report examines Irving's distortions about Auschwitz, its gas chambers and incineration facilities, as well as its role in the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Problem.'
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The clock had just crossed into the fourth quarter, and the Houston Texans were desperately trying to hold onto a football game spiraling out of their reach. They'd just won a challenge to uphold a crucial 1-yard fourth-down conversion, giving them extended life in their effort to hack away at New England's two-touchdown-plus lead.
Four plays later, however, as they once again tempted fourth-quarter fate, you just knew they wouldn't win the risky football bet, not inside a packed-to-the-rafters stadium filled with hostile home crowd hatred. Indeed, the Texans didn't get their yard Sunday. And when Matt Schaub's over-the-middle pass fell hopelessly incomplete, his New England counterpart practically sprinted his offense back onto the field.
Tom Brady could barely wait to accept the gift so deep in Houston territory.
In one play, he made it count. The most lethal football weapon of our time struck again.
As Brady let go of the football, as he lofted a 33-yard strike to Shane Vereen's waiting hands, as he reminded us again of what it looks like to be the best quarterback of your generation, he delivered the Patriots' final touchdown in what would be a 41-28 victory ticket to the AFC Championship game.
One play was all Brady needed to slam the door on the reeling Texans, one throw that pushed him past the 300-yard barrier (the fifth time he's done that in the playoffs), one throw to thrust another star onto the revolving Patriots stage (it was the third touchdown for the second-year pro Vereen, a former Cal star thrust into action when running back Danny Woodhead was injured in the first quarter), one throw to shut down a Texans team that only weeks ago seemed destined to be hosting this divisional game.
Instead we return to Foxborough next weekend for an AFC title game rematch with the Baltimore Ravens, return to Tom Brady's house because the quarterback who just passed his boyhood idol, Joe Montana, with his record 17th postseason victory slammed the door on a wild weekend of football.
While veteran colleagues left the playoffs early and brash, young newcomers crashed the party for the first time, Brady took the stage for the football finale and left no doubt he is still the king of the position. So long Peyton Manning and hello Colin Kaepernick: Tom Brady is still in town.
"I wouldn't want anyone else out there -- he's the best in the league," Patriots defensive end Rob Ninkovich said.
It was Ninkovich's leaping interception that ended a dangerous third-quarter drive by the Texans, one that posed a real threat to cut into a 24-13 deficit when it reached the Patriots' 37-yard-line. But as Schaub took the slump-shouldered walk of shame to the sidelines, unsnapping his chinstrap in a quarterback's patented display of disgust, Brady made Ninkovich a real hero by cashing in for a touchdown six plays later.
"Our job is to get our offense the ball," Ninkovich said. "When they have the ball, anything can become a big play."
Across more than a decade now, Brady has become the game's most magical practitioner of those big plays, and Sunday's win was no exception. Not even the loss of tight end Rob Gronkowski slowed him in the cool evening air, not when he still had favorite target Wes Welker on the field.
Halftime hadn't even hit by the time Welker owned a new personal-playoff yardage high, and with a 47-yard completion as the highlight, the tough-minded receiver finished with eight catches for 131 yards.
Brady was his usual democratic self, connecting with six receivers, finishing with a 115.0 rating for 344 yards passing, three touchdowns, and no interceptions. Yet in the haze of postgame exhaustion, Brady, like his coach, Bill Belichick, had to muster a level of verbal excitement to match what had just happened on the field.
"I'm tired man," he said. "There was a lot of emotional energy spent. It's a big buildup to the week and we had four days of practice. You're up and you're down, you're up and you're down. I'm tired. I'm ready to go home."
With Sunday's win, he gets to stay home, and once again, the path of the NFL playoffs winds its way through windswept Gillette Stadium.


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The faculty at CSFS are experts in a variety of forensic topics and students are able to be a part of faculty research, as well as conduct their own. Our faculty and students often present research findings at industry conferences and submit research findings to prominent peer-reviewed journals in the field.
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A small strip – or rather a 10-meter long one – of Antrim Town quite literally greeted U.S. President Barack Obama when he touched down at Belfast International Airport last Monday morning.
Obama's first step on to Northern Irish soil was straight on to red carpet supplied by Gourley's, a family firm with three stores in the town.
The two carpets marked the path of the President's short stroll from Air Force One to his waiting car, and then from the car to the V.I.P. section of the airport.
[Source: Antrim Guardian]
Crossmaglen and South Armagh Chamber of Commerce launched their "Buy Local" Campaign on Friday, June 14, at Cross Square Hotel.
Newly-appointed Mayor Michael Ruane attended the launch and highlighted the campaign's aim to encourage citizens to spend their money within the local community, by informing them of the economic and cultural benefits of buying local and supporting local jobs.
Businesses in the area had the opportunity to come along to the launch and showcase the best of Crossmaglen and South Armagh's products and services while being encouraged by the Mayor to support the local Chamber and fully endorse the campaign.
[Source: Examiner Newspaper]
Three fishermen were viciously assaulted Thursday evening, June 13, by a gang of youths in Carlow Town, resulting in all three being hospitalized. Jackie Owens and his brothers, Jim and Michael Murphy, were set upon by the gang on the banks of the River Burrin in Carlow town center. "If the Gardaí (police) hadn't come along, I don't know if we'd be here today," Jackie told The Nationalist.
The three veteran anglers were walking on the river bank at approximately 7 p.m. on Thursday when "two young lads came flying up on horses." Jackie confronted the pair, telling them to get off the track because they were a danger to the public and threatened to call the Gardaí if they didn't leave.
[Source: Carlow Nationalist]
Two weeks ago, cyclist groups in Cavan gave a warm welcome to the official opening of one section of a network of cycle paths that ultimately will cost over two-thirds of a million dollars. Cavan Town received a $890,000 grant to develop a cycle and walk pathway on the outskirts of the town.
The Minister of State for public and commuter transport, Alan Kelly, officially opened the cycle path on Tuesday, June 11, one of the many official openings of cycle paths he completed across the country that day. The Active Travel scheme that funded the construction of a 1.5-mile walking path as well as a 3.7-mile cycle lane was supported by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.
The aim of the scheme is to reduce traffic congestion within the town and to encourage more sustainable modes of transport. The next stage of the cycle lane development is due to start in September with an additional eight-mile of cycle lane being funded.
[Source: The Anglo Celt]
A smartphone application that uses G.P.S. technology and Google Maps to guide tourists around the heritage trails of Ennis has gone live.
The Ennis Walking Trails app provides detailed information and photographs for 56 points of interest along five walking routes around the county town. Amongst the well-known heritage attractions profiled in the app are Ennis Friary, Chapel Lane, Poor Clares Monastery, Ennis Courthouse, Bindon Street, O'Connell Monument, Steeles Rock and the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul.
The walking routes, which are also highlighted by color-coded signage and on 41 associated interpretation boards around the town, range from 0.6-mile to 1.9-mile and take 35-80 minutes to complete. The app also includes audio information relating to 13 points of interest under "People & Places."
[Source: Clare Champion]
One Cork neighborhood has been left horrified after the discovery of the body of a foal, whose ears and tail had been removed. The mutilated foal, which appears to have died during birth, was discovered by a group of local children, including Kaitlyn O'Connell (12), whose mother, Emer, said the discovery was gruesome.
"There has always been horses in the field where Kaitlyn found the foal. Its two ears and tail had been cut off cleanly, it was obvious that it was done with a knife rather than by another animal. It's crazy, Kaitlyn was very upset when she rung me to say what she had seen. The area the foal was found in is often used by children and walkers and I just don't know why anyone would act out so violently. She was very shaken by the whole thing," Emer O'Connell told the Cork Independent.
[Source: Cork Independent]
A Derry woman charged with a number of offenses under terrorism legislation, including possession of explosives, was granted bail at Belfast High Court last Thursday.


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2013 NorthStar Ace Race
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Dow 14000: Hard to Reach, Tough to Hold
Dow 14000 is more than just a big round number.
A historical look shows the blue-chip index has spent little time above the 14000 marker. Friday is the 16th time ever that the Dow has traded above 14000 on an intraday basis, and the first instance since Oct. 2007.
On a closing basis, the Dow has finished above 14000 nine separate times. Eight of those nine instances occurred in October 2007, with the lone exception coming in July of that year when the index closed a smidgen above at 14000.41.
The Dow's record high is 14164.53, hit on Oct. 9, 2007.
Better-than-expected manufacturing figures and a positive reaction to the jobs report have been the catalysts for Friday's rally. The Dow recently rose 138 points, or 1%, to 13999, earlier reaching an intraday high of 14004.
Bank of America AT&T and American Express are leading the blue chips higher Friday morning, while Merck & Co.and Exxon Mobil are the lone laggards in the blue-chip index.
Here's more info from WSJ Market Data Group about Dow 14000:
- First crossed 14000 intraday, on July 17, 2007.
- First closed above the 14000 level was on July 19, 2007.
- Closed at an all-time high 57 trading days later on October 9, 2007 at 14164.53.
- Last close above 14000 was October 12, 2007.
- The last time it traded above 14000 intraday was October 17, 2007.
- The 2007 bear market took the index down 7617.48 points or 53.78% to a low 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
- As of noon today, the DJIA was at 14000.87, up 113.85% from the bear market low of 6457.05 (983 trading days from the low).
- Heading into today, the index has crossed the 14000 level three times (on a closing basis and counted one-way, heading up).
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On September 25, 2007, Dallas County's first strategic plan was formally adopted by the Commissioners Court. Developed over an eighteen-month period, the plan is the result of an extensive survey of County employees, numerous discussion sessions, a review of key statistical data, and interviews with almost 100 elected officials, County staff members, business leaders, representatives of other local governments, and community organizations.
This plan has been developed to serve as a framework for an to guide the County in its decision-making over the next ten years. The plan identifies five goals-visions-for the County as well as strategies and roles that the County can follow as it pursues these goals. It also identifies 79 specific activities that the County can undertake that will help the County achieve these goals.
It is anticipated that the County will use this plan as it allocates its resources and that, in general, the projects and the programs that the County conducts and provides will be consistent with this plan. It is recognized, though, that the County may undertake some activities over the next ten years that are not presently included in the plan as new situations and opportunities arise. In such instances, the presence of the plan will enable the County to determine whether a new initiative will significantly divert County resources away from existing goals or whether the goals themselves need to be revised.


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Speech Done, Obama Now Needs a Victory
Weeks, if not months, of planning went into President Barack Obama's much-anticipated State of the Union address Tuesday night, but the really hard part is just beginning.
The days leading up to these annual addresses are often awash in setting expectations. The difference this year, however, is the expectation-setting hasn't been focused so much on the speech itself as it has been on the results that will, or will not, follow.
Even allies of the White House say Mr. Obama faced a different task with this State of the Union address: He had to sell his agenda to a country that is increasingly fed up with and tuning out Washington. More importantly, to get buy-in from Americans on his agenda Mr. Obama has to show them he can get something done.
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- The U.S. Is Closer to Full Employment. But Wage Insurance Can Still Help.
- Nikki Haley to Meet With Chris Christie Ahead of GOP Debate
- Obama's State of the Union Has Lowest Viewership of His Presidency
- Chris Christie Backs Nikki Haley in Trump State of the Union Dust-Up
- Obama Confronts the Stubborn Problem of Political Rancor--Again
- In Nikki Haley's Conservative Critique, a Model for the GOP?
"One of the most important aspects of this speech is whether the American people feel that both the president and Congress are serious about actually getting something done, particularly on the economy, rather than just playing games," former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Mr. Obama's senior aides have been candid about how netting actual policy victories–either through legislation or by executive action–is Mr. Obama's top challenge this year.
But the president's team has a spotty track record on following through with its agenda. It has not always been its fault–international crises have intervened–but at times it has simply taken its eye off the ball after the president's pitch. Remember the "White House to Main Street" campaign? Or the pivot to the economy last summer?
Such efforts have tended to peter out.
After what was likely the smallest audience he's faced for a State of the Union address, Mr. Obama is aiming to continue whatever momentum it can gives him, with two days of events outside of Washington, as is customary following a State of the Union address. He plans to visit Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Tennessee.
The White House has promised once again that the president will get out of Washington more often in coming months to engage with average Americans. That will be a key factor in checking on the impact of the executive actions he promised Tuesday night, as well as how his attempt to push Congress to act on his top priorities, including immigration reform and an increase in the federal minimum wage.
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Yarn Profile: Cleckheaton Gusto
First Impressions
Here's where quick-knitting yarns come in handy (these are also referred to as "weekend yarns" because you can knit an entire sweater in two days). Most such yarns fall into two categories: inexpensive but uninspiring synthetics, or extremely expensive and luxurious (Colinette yarns are one such example). I'm happy to introduce a yarn that spans these two categories nicely: Cleckheaton Gusto.
The fiber content is 30% wool, 30% mohair, and 40% acrylic, which means you still get the satisfying feel and look of natural fiber but the durability and reasonable price of acrylics. Colors are limited to a rather basic, adult spectrum of black, navy, grey, white, cream, yellow, and berry red (names mine, not Cleckheaton's).
Knitting Up
Otherwise, it's very easy to work with, and the stitches come out quite even -- even if, like me, your knit rows have the tendency to look a bit different than your purl rows.
Blocking / Washing
But after washing, my gauge expanded to an even 2 stitches per inch. I don't see this as a huge problem, but you should definitely keep this in mind as you size your garment.
And the end result was surprisingly soft and attractive. If you add a little bit of detail to your Gusto project -- say a few colors or a little cable here and there -- few people would know it only took you a weekend to make.
It's soft but durable, and the colors limited but attractive. An average-sized women's sweater would take about 11 skeins, at $6.99 apiece, so you're still looking at an investment... but well worth it if you want to keep peace in the family.
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30% wool
40% acrylic
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I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of seven children.
I attribute my love of words to my father's example. He found delight in exercising a huge vocabulary. Although from a long line of Irish Catholics, my dad knew and used more Yiddish than many of his Jewish friends.
I gained much of my interest in art from my mother's side of my family. My uncle Samuel Manierre studied art history at Harvard in the 1920s. Sam gave lectures on art history at various museums and schools using a collection of more than 3000 slides of paintings — slides made by his father. Sam wrote a monthly column about art history for the Milwaukee magazine Exclusively Yours. His love for his artist friends, art history, and the pleasures he found in his own art collection impressed me greatly. I particularly remember his explaining abstraction to me when, as a boy, I asked him what's that all about?! (Among Sam's published articles: "Six Wisconsin Painters" (The Studio, January 1946, pages 20-23.) [This is a PDF file. To view it, use the free Acrobat Reader.] Sam was also a terrific storyteller.)
Sam's mother, my grandmother, Katharine Newbury Manierre studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a working artist until she married in 1906. Her style was richly influenced by Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts Movement.
My grandfather, George Manierre was a graduate of Harvard (class of '00 — he'd say "aught-aught"), a mechanical engineer who invented myriad devices, from machines that loaded coal onto boxcars to children's toys. One of his contraptions can hold and illuminate a book in any position, and was named the "Readanrest." I enjoy a 1925 model that hovers over my bed. Unfortunately the manufacture of the Readanrest was discontinued in the 1930s.
My memories of these people and their encouragement are among my greatest treasures.
After graduating from St. Norbert College in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in art and English, I taught art to secondary students in Denver, CO.
I earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986. My work there focused on producing sculpture. I especially enjoyed my relationship with Martin Puryear, a terrific sculptor and mentor. While in Chicago, I taught a course to future educators titled Studies in Creativity — Art for Elementary Teachers, and another to adults in drawing and painting.
Since then I've taught visual art to students in several elementary and secondary schools in the Paradise Valley Unified School District in Arizona.
From the fall of 2004 I have been studying art, art education, linguistics, and educational technology at Arizona State University in the course of attaining a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Art Education.
One of ASU's reknowned professors of art — a.k.a. Doctor It.
I'm an active member of several professional organizations including the National Art Education Association, the Arizona Art Education Association, the Arizona Alliance for Art Education, the National Education Association, the Dictionary Society of North America, MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), and the Art History Webmasters Association.
I married Alison Kukla in 1986. We have two wonderful teenage children.
For more about me (you haven't learned enough yet?!!) visit my personal home page.
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Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975, Russian semiologist) observed that all of us "live in a world of others' words" and our "entire life is an orientation in this world, a reaction to others' words." (Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, C. Emerson, editor and translator, 1984, p. 146. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.)
People have been using language for 80,000 - 2,000,000 years, depending on how you define language. Gesturing without speech was the earliest stage. "Over there is a thing with lots of teeth," "This high, this wide," and "Looking good! [or ugly!]" must certainly have been among the phrases in that gestural vocabulary.
In Africa archaeologists have found evidence of several innovations in human behavior that date to 50,000 years ago: a great variety of tools made from stone and bone, signs of long distance trade, and the first art objects.
If only we had some documentation of all the long-lost figures drawn in dirt, on stone, vegetation, bone and skin throughout the ages, it would tax our abilities to catalogue such a vast database of markings. (Because other creatures are known to have made gestures and marks that convey information and feelings, the history of art may not be limited entirely to that produced by homo sapiens either!) Even deeply pre-historic pre-speech gestures may have conjured up mental images that today would qualify them as "conceptual art."
The first actual writing was produced about 5,000 years ago, and from its beginnings was itself a form of visual art.
In all of this past, many have observed that "a picture is worth a thousand words." Noting things' descriptive qualities and making verbal analogies about them are among the potent means we have to stretch our minds around our world. Working with words helps us to analyze, interpret, and express our ideas about, criticise and evaluate whatever we see and make.
Finding and choosing the best words, and truly comprehending their meaning is a critically challenging and rewarding pursuit, elemental to the development of all students of art, whether we are working toward an academic degree or involved in life-long learning. The average high school student has a vocabulary of about 60,000 words, including many of the 3600 words addressed in ArtLex. But, "There are things we don't see because we don't have words for them," as Eric Margolis said. The opportunity offered by any study of this resource is at minimum an increase in the breadth and depth of a student's capacity for uses of art ideas as we expand our abilities to listen, converse and write about, as well as produce art.
ArtLex is about finding and understanding those words most likely to be among any thousand that a picture is worth. If in evolutionary terms these words' history is brief, then ArtLex's is briefer still:
In my first ten years of teaching art, about 1975-85, I made and projected hundreds of slides. As my uncle had, I hunted down sources of images, spent a lot of time and money with a copystand, a camera, and film, labeled each slide, and set up a system for their storage. The slides were constantly moving between my light-table, projector trays, and back into storage.
In the late 1980s I embraced newer technologies. I got two museums' collections on laser disks and Hypercard (aka Hyperstack) software that allowed my personal computer to interact with the laser disk. I could display information about the images on a disk, and create "slide shows" on a classroom TV screen. Despite the great numbers of images available from the disks, and the smartly organized information in the software, there were many technical and pedagogical limitations. Few art educators could afford these things, and of those who could, few put in the hours necessary to use them very much. And as with the slides, few students could use this gear without supervision. The need remained for a more accessible system of art information — texts and images that could cross-reference a vast array of visual culture — art history, certainly, but also art production, criticism, aesthetics, and other art educational issues. And one that could continuously grow as time went by.
In 1994 I began teaching in a newly built school prewired for Internet connection.
I immediately began putting together Web pages about my art program, including descriptions of my lessons and images of my students' work. The more I produced pages for my students, the more I wondered what other resources would be useful to them. In exploring the Web, I was impressed both by its potential and by a dearth of content: the vast majority of sites either shallow or narrow. The most interesting sites: invariably sources of vast information, many of them directories of links to a variety of other sites. The urge to contribute to the Web's enrichment with an art site both rich with meaning and dense with links was the impetus to make ArtLex. The name comes from combining "art" with "lexicon" — a list of words or dictionary.
It began as a short list of definitions in the spring of 1996, growing into a glossary of 1400 articles, first posted on the Web a few months later.
Now it has more than 3,600 articles, more than 50,000 links, and is seen by millions of visitors every year. In 2008, about a million page-views were served every month.
I am an avid student of linguistics, especially of lexicography — the writing of dictionaries — a discipline with a fascinating history. Its holy trinity of heroes are the "harmless drudges" (that's how Samuel Johnson defined lexicographer) [left to right] Johnson (1709-84), Noah Webster (1758-1843), and James Murray (1837-1915). But the wordy folk to whom I pay most attention are the art writers and talkers of the world — art experts and students of art.
It is gratifying to hear how ArtLex is respected and used around the globe. If you search Google with the keyword "art," Google recommends ArtLex among the first of the 900,000,000 sites it notes!
In the location window of any browser, if you type "art dictionary," the first option suggested will be ArtLex.
The DMOZ Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others. The Open Directory is the definitive catalog of the Web — "the most widely distributed data base of Web content classified by humans." The Open Directory's list of more than 2,300 art history sites says ArtLex is the best of them all. Google — the most frequently consulted Internet search engine — recommends more than 3,000 art history sites. Google says it recommends ArtLex more often than all but one of those sites.
You might enjoy learning about the numerous awards presented to ArtLex, and what other sites recommend it.
I have been improving this collection of terms, definitions, images, quotations, links, and related information since its beginnings. There's no end to the improvements still to come: a steady increase in the number, length, and quality of articles. ArtLex will just keep growing as an illustrated visual art reference taking advantage of the potential of internetworked hypermedia.
Although my points of view inevitably moderate the content of ArtLex, I strive for objectivity — essential in a reference dedicated to explaining how others use words. Everything here is temporary. Everything is under construction and poised for improvement. Our language is constantly evolving, and my goal to represent it realistically is a frankly daunting challenge! If you think anything is missing, inadequate, distorted, or wrong, please contact the author!
Pushing the boundaries of interactivity further, I've been adding lessons along with links to those by others. Some of these take the form of games. Assessments will be interactive online, and automatically scored for immediate feedback.
I believe the web is growing into the best resource next to books. We can all agree the internet has its share of problems. Some web addresses published in textbooks are no longer good by the time students receive the books. Other times, students cannot access the web because internet servers are down, and some connections are excruciatingly slow. And there are still plenty of schools without enough computers. All of these problems can be solved, and might be!
"There are some things about a book that can't be beat," said Paul LeBlanc, expert on internet-based education and president of Marlboro College in Vermont. "They're portable, inexpensive, and most people say they prefer to read text on the printed page rather than on a computer screen anyway."
The Conference of English Educators' journal Contemporary Issues in Technology and English Eductaion says, "Exploring the discourse of language with and through technology provides individual attention, collaborative opportunities, and reflective analysis."
Students who have grown up with computers and the internet have found the shift to internet-based learning easy and attractive.
In 2004 the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) completed a three-year study of research habits that included 1,233 students across the USA. The study concluded that electronic resources had become the main tool for gathering information, particularly among undergraduates.
There are many new directions we'll be taking ArtLex, and we'd be delighted to know what ideas occur to you. Email at ArtLex!
ArtLex isn't available on paper. Although, anyone browsing it on the web could use a computer-printer to print it out, copyright and other restrictions are significant. (ArtLex wouldn't begrudge your quoting selections of course. I encourage it!)
I have no intention to publish ArtLex as a book for several reasons:
- Its thousands of hyperlinks would become entirely ineffective. A printed copy would show each term and its definition, along with lists of example artworks, quotations, etc., but none of the example artworks could be seen enlarged, nor would other resources on the internet be so immediately accessible.
- Books are wonderful. Web pages can be selectively printed. Nevertheless, since so many features of ArtLex are effective only in its online form, it would be a waste of paper, ink, printer maintenance, and shelf space to create a printed copy. And [call me a radical environmentalist (-; ], but I'm delighted to reduce deforestation and the pollution created by paper mills, printing presses, and freight haulers by making ArtLex available only in this electronic form.
- ArtLex was first posted to the Web in August of 1996, but it has undergone changes every week since then. So any printing of ArtLex speedily becomes a previous edition — no longer the current edition, as this one is.
- By viewing ArtLex online, you're much more likely to enter into communication with its author!
Having said all that, let's continue to benefit from dictionaries among other works in print, and more online. I recommend several in ArtLex's bibliography.
Copyright issues in the electronic
environment are evolving. There seem to be few experts, and we've
found even those to be unclear about how copyright law applies
here. Following the strongest advice I have received, here are
the policies ArtLex follows:
1 . ArtLex obtains permission to display copyrighted images.
ArtLex obtains permission to place copyrighted images of larger-than-thumbnail size on its pages. Otherwise ArtLex provides links to images that are larger than thumbnail-size. When a visitor to ArtLex clicks on such a link, the visitor's browser is directed to display images that are larger than thumbnail-size within a new window, and not within ArtLex's frame — to retrieve the code for that image from the server-of-origin, and to display it in the context of a web page from the server-of-origin. ArtLex understands that webmasters are not required to obtain permission from the owners of copyrighted images in order to post them on their web pages if they are thumbnail-size images and webmasters do not copy the digital code of those images onto their servers; and that webmasters may copy only the URLs of thumbnail-sized images onto their servers/webpages, so that visitors' browsers are directed to obtain the code for those thumbnail images on other servers in order to display them. (We understand that part of the reasoning for this interpretation is that thumbnails are of such low resolution that they are considered to have relatively insignificant commercial value.) It is also our policy to name, whenever known, the collections in which all cited works reside, along with information about the artists, media, dates, dimensions, etc.
2 . How to obtain permission to copy images from ArtLex.
Many photographs of artworks seen via ArtLex are owned by individuals and institutions which have produced them, and thus hold the rights to these photographs to be used in reproduction. So, we suggest you contact the individual or institution which owns the work. ArtLex cannot and does not grant any of its visitors permission to use the digital code for any image found on or through ArtLex if ArtLex does not own that image. An exception is that a visitor may temporarily display those images on the visitor's monitor. A visitor who wishes to copy any image found on the web should contact the webmaster of the site from whose server the image originates. For more information on the use of others' images, see the sections below, and the article on copyright within ArtLex. It has several links to other copyright sites on the Web.
Keep in mind that if an artist has been dead more than seventy years, his or her work is in the public domain. Reproduction rights are then concerned with rights held by those who have produced photographs of the works. In other words, if someone takes his own photo of a public domain work, he may do anything he wishes with it.
If you find that an image originating from the artlex.com domain is among those you wish to copy, contact Michael Delahunt. Identify the URL of the image, and describe exactly each use you wish to make of it. As long as ArtLex's URL (www.artlex.com/) is identified along with each use, no permission is required to make copies of any ArtLex logo such as the one shown here.
3 . What is "Fair Use"?
The Fair Use Provision of the Copyright Act (USA) states:
§107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
[The copyrighted artists in ArtLex are presented for educational purposes, including teaching, scholarship and research. I endeavor to provide contact information for owners of the copyright so they will be the sole beneficiaries of any commercial opportunities that may arise from the inclusion of these images in ArtLex. Brief quotations from books are presented for purposes of criticism and comment.]
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;
[Even the works of artists most frequently displayed in ArtLex represent extremely small percentages of the works from their ouvres. As for the textual excerpts, only as much text is presented here to illustrate the quality of the writing, and to encourage the visitor to purchase the book or visit the web site of its origin.]
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
[The low resolution of images in ArtLex are entirely unsuitable for printed reproduction, and as such provide no competition for licensed, high resolution images of copyrighted images. To the contrary, the availability of these images online often results in requests for licensing information, reproductions, and even original artwork, all of which result in increased revenue for the copyright holders.]
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
4 . How to obtain permission to copy text from ArtLex.
The makers of every reference work hope their work will be quoted. As long as ArtLex is cited with its URL (www.artlex.com/) as the source of a quotation, the visitor should feel free to quote it. Only when a quotation amounts to more than a hundred (100) words do I require that permission be explicitly requested and obtained. In the vast majority of such instances permission has been given. Contact
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ASHLAND — No. 12 Southern Oregon rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit to gain a hard-fought 85-83 nonconference win over William Jessup, Wednesday night at Bob Riehm Arena.
Southern Oregon improves to 13-4 overall with the win, while William Jessup falls to 1-14 this season. The Raiders return to action Saturday, when they will travel to Klamath Falls to take on archrival Oregon Tech in a Cascade Collegiate Conference game at 7:30 p.m.
Eric Thompson led SOU with 24 points, while Kyle Tedder connected on 5 of 6 3-point attempts to add 17 points. David Sturner and Tim Weber each finished with 10 points apiece as the Raiders shot 55.4 percent (31 of 56) in the win.
Jordan Wilson finished with a game-high 28 points to go with 10 rebounds, going 12-for-19 in the game for the Warriors. Keenan Prince added 22, while Kevin Stanley finished with 15 points.
Southern Oregon used an 11-3 run down the stretch to take an eight-point lead with 2:10 to play, but William Jessup scored the next five points to make it 81-78 in the final minute. Tedder and Thompson made four free throws in the final minute, and the SOU defense prevented the Warriors from getting a shot off in the closing seconds to clinch the two-point victory.
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Penguins Report: Game Day vs. Buffalo
Saturday, 10.5.2013 / 10:02 AM ET / Penguins Report
Pittsburgh Penguins
- Skate info
- Roster report
- Game Day Report
- Bennett chats
- Skate pics
- Malkin adjusts
- Pens-Sabres preview
- Sabres pics
- Start
--Michelle Crechiolo
One of the storylines in training camp was whether Beau Bennett or Jussi Jokinen would win the open spot on Evgeni Malkin and James Neal's line. Well, with Neal currently sidelined with an upper-body injury, both Bennett and Jokinen are getting the chance to play on that line at the same time.
Judging from morning skate rushes, it looks like Jokinen will play left wing while Bennett will slot into Neal's spot on the right to start tonight's game. Bennett had been playing left wing no matter where he was in the lineup, but the right-handed shot was a natural right winger before turning pro, so he's not concerned about the switch.
"I've been playing left for a while now, so it's kind of just getting back into the swing of things," Bennett said. "There's really not that much difference, especially with a smart guy like Jussi. And when we come back into the zone, if he's on my side I'll stay on his and whatnot. So we're kind of all over the place just reading off each other and for the most part it's pretty much the same."
It's not necessarily an easy job being Malkin's linemate, as he demands a lot from the players who flank him. It takes a unique blend of skill and smarts to work well with one of the best players in the world, but Bennett and Jokinen have proven they are capable of doing that.
"He carries the play for the most part, so it's all about kind of finding openings and supporting the puck and being a responsible F3," Bennett said of playing with Malkin. "I wouldn't say it's any harder or easier, it's just kind of a different scenario than playing with 'Suttsy' (Brandon Sutter). So it's definitely different, but I like either way."
Bennett is fine with all of the reading and reacting that comes with playing alongside Malkin, and has taken cues from Neal.
"I think when you see 'Nealer' playing on that side they're kind of always supporting each other no matter where it is on the ice," Bennett said. "So you want to develop that chemistry, that trust and it'll only get better with time."
--Michelle Crechiolo
A couple of roster notes from head coach Dan Bylsma...
- Marc-Andre Fleury will start in goal
- Kris Letang skated briefly on his own and is progressing. No timetable on return to practice
- Matt D'Agostini expected to practice on Oct. 16th or 18th
--Sam Kasan
Jhonas Enroth will likely get the start tonight for Buffalo
Mark Pysyk
Sabres gather
Tyler Ennis
--Sam Kasan
"Geno" working with new linemates to start the season
Fleury getting low to protect the side of the net
Beau steps on a nail during practice
Gather around nobles
Vitale eyes up our camera while chatting with Sid
Engelland with the loose straps
Dupuis all smiles, as usual
--Sam Kasan & Dave "Slayer" Uhrmacher
I had a chance to talk to Evgeni Malkin exclusively about his new linemates this season with Neal out on a week-to-week basis.
"It's tough losing Neal," Malkin said. "We had just 11 forwards. We had to adjust the lines and it made it tougher. It was still a great win, great two points."
Regardless of who Malkin plays with, he will no doubt be the driving force on his line.
"I'm ready. I'm excited to play," Malkin said. "The first game I was a little bit nervous. I played all right. I can play better and will play better.
"I'm just doing what I can to help the team win."
Full story here.
--Sam Kasan
The only missing players from practice are James Neal (upper-body, week-to-week) and the players on IR (Vokoun, Letang and D'Agostini).
Pens used the following lines:
--Sam Kasan
The Sabres come to town to face off against the Pens. Click here for a preview of tonight's action or click below.
--Sam Kasan
Good morning hockey fans. Tonight the Pens host the Buffalo Sabres at CONSOL Energy Center at 7 p.m. We'll get you set for game day right here at the Pens Report with the latest info and updates on tonight's game.
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U.S. Wind Power: Next Gen Drivetrain Development
Open Date: 02/07/2011
Close Date: 04/01/2011
Funding Organization: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Funding Number: DE-FOA-0000439
Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement, the Wind and Water Power Program within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is interested in developing next generation wind turbine drivetrain technologies to reduce the cost of energy (COE) produced by wind turbines. Advances in drivetrain technologies are expected to have a direct effect on capital costs, operation and maintenance costs, replacement costs, and/or lifetime energy production. DOE seeks projects that will produce conceptual designs and conduct risk reduction analyses for innovative, next generation drivetrain systems.
Letter of Intent Due Date: 3/7/2011, 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Application Due Date: 4/1/2011, 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
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Soooo.... this must have gotten cancelled last night?Beerman wrote:Don't forget today is the start of singles at Ewing.
I was gonna say..We were just about to go there from beemans, but... decided to play poker instead.Joe Cool wrote:It was canceled. A hand full of us stayed and played anyway and it never stopped lightning until we had about two holes to go.
Apparently we are weather cursed this year
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The name of a particularly potent kind of LSD that was made in California, USA.
That Superfantastic acis sure lived up to its name!
by djsynchro January 12, 2012
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Can you define these popular missing words?
A way of describing something that's absolutley wonderful, such as a good friend, a tasty piece of cheese, or any other excellent object.
You will be my superfantastic friend forever!
I had the most superfantastic dream last night.
I had the most superfantastic dream last night.
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-Something that is Super and Fantastic at the same time
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to have the best time ever...doing real good....loving it! you can also be... hot,nice,or helpful
"sex with you was super fantastic!" OR "Thanks that was super fantastic of you!" OR "Man my day was super fantastic!"
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A make believe word used to describe something that is really really really good. Usually used by extreme optimists such as celia's mom.
Paul: hey jody how are you today?
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A phrase used to describe something so amazing that you have to combine two words to describe it
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I've been a long time user of PSM (love it), and have come across a problem I cannot fix.
I had a problem connecting to something, and I found a solution by upgrading my Billion 7800N firmware. However, I can no longer connect my PC to my PS3 via PS3 Media Server.
I have tried/confirmed:
-Connection to PC and Router (and internet)
-Connection to PS3 and Router (and internet)
-Can ping PS3 on PC.
-Reinstalled PS3 Media Centre
-Disabled firewall/AV on PC
-Hard reboot of router
-Reboot of PC
-Reboot of PS3 (power off at wall)
-General misc screwing around with router settings and soft reboots.
-Upgrading firmware again (1.06g to 1.06h)
I followed the connection guide in the help section on PSM. I forced the NIC, and changed the port number. No joy.
Anyone have any ideas? Anyone with a 7800N on latest firmware that uses PMS.
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•Computer Specs: i7 3930K CPU. 16GB RAM. Windows 7
•Using PS3 Media Server 1.72.0
•Trying to Stream to PS3
•Connection - PC on gigabit ethenet, PS3 on wireless. Via Billion 7800N router
router). E.g. PC <-Wifi G-> Linksys WRT54G Router <-100mbps-> PS3
•Debug log: http://pastebin.com/0YKy0Puq
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17. Pittsburgh Steelers
Manti Te'o NFL Player Comparison
The Pick: ILB Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
The Manti Te'o wait is over.
Fans of the Notre Dame linebacker will surely be upset that he's still on the board here, but they should be glad to see him in a situation tailor-made for his talents. But why the fall down the board?
Te'o is a very good linebacker, no question, but his position isn't one of great need at the top of the draft this year. There are teams who could add a middle linebacker, but it's not the primary need for any team ahead of Pittsburgh.
Also (and this doesn't get mentioned enough), Te'o simply isn't a great athlete. He's not Patrick Willis. Instead, look for Te'o to run somewhere around a 4.7 in the 40-yard dash and perform about average in all agility tests at the combine.
Te'o had a brilliant year, and his character can't be questioned, but he's not the elite, all-world prospect that some have made him out to be. It's much more likely he's drafted in the 10-15 range and not the 5-10 range some are predicting.
The rest can be here: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...-order/page/18
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PMS 1.6.0 installed from happy-neko reposistory on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, firewall disabled.
My problem is the following: when I start PMS first time (and when PMS.conf is deleted), PMS can find renderer (SONY Bravia) but PMS not apperars on renderer.
After restart (PMS.conf in my home dir, in a right place), PMS say no renderers were found.
Debug logs are attached.
Thanks for your help. (Windows version from same machine working well, thank you for it )


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SAN FRANCISCO -- On a personal level, Arizona State running back Cameron Marshall didn't have the season he expected.
On a team level, Marshall delivered exactly what the Sun Devils needed to reach Saturday's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl against Navy at AT&T Park.
The star of the ASU backfield a year ago, when he rushed for 1,050 yards and scored 18 touchdowns, Marshall swallowed his ego and shared the running back position with two new teammates this fall.
First-year coach Todd Graham said Marshall's willingness to accept a new role and buy into a fresh agenda was a key to the Sun Devils' turnaround. ASU takes a 7-5 record into its matchup with the 8-4 Midshipmen.
"There's not a selfish bone in his body," Graham said. "He really easily could have had a different approach to that, and I think most people would have. Not Cam Marshall. Special kid."
This was not an easy season for Marshall, a senior from San Jose's Valley Christian High. He entered the year on target to break ASU's career touchdown record and perhaps elevate himself as an NFL prospect.
"This guy was on the cover of magazines before the season started, and he's on the bench," linebacker Brandon Magee said. "He handled it like a pro. You could tell he wanted to win more than he wanted personal stats. That's big-time.
"A lot of people look up to Cameron Marshall."
Graham brought in two new backs -- highly touted freshman D.J. Foster and JC transfer Marion Grice -- and a new set of rules. Determined to instill discipline, he banned earrings and told players they could not wear hats, hoodies or headphones in the football facility. "Yes sir" and "no sir" were the expected responses.
Asked about the initial reaction to the new culture, Marshall acknowledged players wondered, "Are you crazy? What's up with this stuff?"
But, he added, "We figured if we choose to not buy into everything, we have no chance of winning."
After ending last season with five straight defeats, the Sun Devils raced out of the gate with five victories in their first six games. Marshall, who had four 100-yard rushing games in 2011, remained the starter but saw his carries and his production slashed. His 524 yards are almost exactly half his total of a year ago.
"I wouldn't say I took it personally. It definitely took some getting used to," Marshall said. "I've said my first and primary goal for the year over everything was to win. If that took me having a lesser role statistically, then that's what needed to be done."
His dad, Greg Marshall, told the Arizona Republic he was proud of his son for taking the high road to the benefit of his team. He said Cameron has "an old soul."
"I think he meant that I was mature for my age," Cameron Marshall said. "I know a lot of guys in this situation might not have handled it the way I handled it."
Graham said not once did he even detect bad body language from Marshall.
"He actually was coaching those guys to help them get better," Graham said of the assistance Marshall provided to Foster and Grice. "On the offensive side of the ball, he was the key component to the leadership and development of our team."
Marshall is seven touchdowns shy of the ASU career record he was expected to challenge. He carried the ball 13 times or more just four times all season, after doing so in all but one game as a junior.
"It's a balance of keeping your ego in a place where you maintain your confidence, but at the same time you realize your role," Marshall said. "I think I was able to find that balance."
Follow Jeff Faraudo on Twitter at twitter.com/CalBearsBANG.
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl
WHO: Arizona State (7-5) vs. Navy (8-4)
WHERE: AT&T Park, San Francisco
WHEN: 1 p.m.


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This is an article from Oct. 2012. Some social media sites may be confusing this article while searching on news for the latest updates:
Pizarro: Last call for Race Street Seafood Kitchen
Race Street Seafood closing Saturday, new owner Grand Seafood Market will open Monday
A hungry, panicked customer approached Edna Rivera, a server working on a tough day at the famous Race Street Seafood Kitchen near midtown San Jose.
"Is it true you're closing?" asked the woman in the middle of a recent lunch hour rush. "I can't believe that. Why would they close this place? I've been coming here for so long!"
Rivera wiped her brow and sighed -- for the umpteenth time.
"No, no, no!" Rivera said. "We're not closing on this side. This is the restaurant side. It's the other side that's closing. That's the wholesale side. ... I've been saying this all day long."
All week, a mad confusion has haunted throngs of seafood lovers throughout the Bay Area who heard their beloved "Race Street" was closing. Actually, the owners of two separate but related businesses -- the Race Street Fish and Poultry market and the retail Race Street Seafood Kitchen -- sold the market part to a corporation.
"People are still coming in thinking the restaurant is closing," Rivera said.
Before poor Edna loses her voice, let's get it straight: As you enter the popular establishment, the restaurant on the right, where people order food and sit at small, simple tables, will stay. But, on the left, the refrigerated counter, where fish cutters wrap raw seafood and poultry in white paper for customers to cook at home, will disappear after Oct. 14.
The confusion was inevitable because the walk-up restaurant and the walk-up fish counter have always shared the same busy space, separated by only a few yards. But after all these decades, who knew the difference? Who cared?
Not Maxine Thomas. She was but a mere sprite, 20-something customer back in 1947 when the Barsanti-Riparbelli clan started their wholesale fish business. They added the restaurant in 1969.
"I come here for lunch, and then I always buy some fish to cook at home for my husband," said Thomas, now 88 with stunning, platinum hair. And yes, she was walking out with some fresh trout and oysters for her husband that night. "I'm sorry to see this place go, but you know, that's what happens."
Lifestyle changes
The heirs of the family business showed up midweek to explain what happened, and why, in more detail.
"Bottom line, this is the result of changes in the American family," said co-owner Dan Barsanti. "It reflects today's lifestyle."
Back when his father Gino Barsanti and two uncles started the wholesale fish business, men brought home the bacon (or the fish) and women typically stayed at home, raised children and cooked dinner most nights. Every Friday during the Roman Catholic holy season of Lent, immigrant Italian families like theirs bought tons of fish.
Not anymore.
Standing near the famed 44-foot-long counter filled with 41 seafood items ranging from Dungeness crab to Komo Gway barbecue oysters, Barsanti continued his seafood business lecture.
"In those days, our fish market was busier than the restaurant," said the energetic and trim 62-year-old. "Now it's the other way around. Who has time to cook at home anymore?"
While he declares his current customers binge on seafood for only a few days during the holidays, they collectively bought 10,000 pounds of Dungeness crab last season.
"You need a lot of refrigerator space for 10,000 pounds of crab," he said. "But what about the rest of the year when you have to store only 400 pounds a week?"
With the restaurant side more profitable, he and his cousin Jim Riparbelli have decided to keep and expand it, adding new entrees to the menu and probably more employees. They could have sold the whole family enterprise for a nice lump sum, which is the Silicon Valley way.
"We thought about it for a long time," Barsanti said, "but you just don't throw away 65 years of history."
A bigger restaurant worried a few, loyal customers. Would the old-school, no-nonsense fish joint become trendy and pricey, a place where nobody eats crusted fish with their fingers?
"Do we look like yuppies to you?" cracked Riparbelli. "That would be the last thing to happen."
Bottom line
Even so, plenty of customers and employees were deeply sorry to see the fresh fish and poultry counter go.
Arthur Girard of Clayton, near Mount Diablo, has come down almost every week since 1971 since moving from Louisiana, where they know a thing or two about seafood.
"When we first saw this place, my wife said, 'This is 'Nuh AWE-luns' right here!'"
Delia Ornelas Cruz of Gilroy has come to eat and purchase seafood for 31 years. The mother of 10 is a grandmother many times over -- she lost count momentarily -- but she remembered exactly how much shrimp she buys for their family gatherings: $100 worth.
"It's for my traditional shrimp cocktail," she beamed. "Mexican style."
Perhaps no one will miss the fish counter more than Susan Koehler, who lives nearby, cooks a lot at home and drops by "several times at week" for seafood.
"You can always find something really good, and they'll help you on how to prepare it," she said on her way out with packages of jumbo shrimp and smoked salmon. "Now I'm depressed. Where am I going to go from now on?"
As much as Race Street fans were relieved the restaurant will stay, at least three employees are losing their jobs.
"The faces on this side of the counter are all glum," said Eric Conover, the manager and head fish cutter who's worked there eight years and is now 49.
Marcos Rodriguez, the youngest fish cutter at age 41, is a single father with a 5-year-old son. A 13-year employee, he said he might not have enough savings to keep their modest San Jose apartment.
"It's going to be pretty close," he said.
Bill Sue doesn't have that problem. Now 78, he officially retired from Race Street 11 years ago but decided to continue part-time. Still, he said, you get to know your co-workers and customers well in the fish-cutting trade.
"Oh, yeah, it's like home to me," the senior fish cutter said. "I'm going to miss this place."
They won't be slashing prices at all, Barsanti said, so anything left in the counter probably will be donated to local food kitchens. Imagine that day's menu! Clam chowder, Yellowfin sushi, wild salmon steak, fresh water shrimp, and don't forget the chipotle and lime tortilla-crusted tilapia!
Contact Joe Rodriguez at 408-920-5767.
Whither holiday crab?
Race Street typically sells about 10,000 pounds of Dungeness crab each holiday season. So the question for many families: What markets might fill our holiday seafood fix?


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The government in Cyprus has shut down banks until later this week while lawmakers wrangle over how to keep the island nation from bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, a plan to seize up to 10 percent of savings accounts in Cyprus to help pay for a financial bailout is being met with fury.
Though the euro and stock prices of European banks fell Monday, global financial markets largely remained calm, and there's little sense that bank account holders elsewhere across the continent face similar risk.
Political leaders in Cyprus are scrambling to devise a new plan that would not be so burdensome for people with less than (euro) 100,000 in the bank.
The authorities have delayed a parliamentary vote on the seizure of (euro) 5.8 billion and have ordered banks to remain shut until Thursday while they try to modify the deal, which must be approved by other eurozone governments. A rejection of the package could see the country go bankrupt and possibly drop out of the euro currency.


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Fueling the pipe
02.04.2012 - Belgian specialist for single-chain antibodies from camelidae Ablynx NV (Ghent) has strengthened its management with the appointment of Dr. Andreas Menrad as CSO.
Menrad is an expert for the progression of lead candidates into the clinic, and will closely collaborate with Ablynx CMO Josefin-Beate Holz, who is responsible for the firm's clinical Nanobody® programmes in hematological (ALX 0081/ALX0681) and immunological (ALX0061m ATN103)m ATN192) disorders as well as in oncology (ALX141, ALX651). Currently, Ablynx has five partnered preclinical drug programmes with Merck KGaA, while one Nanobody candidate is being developed with Novartis. Additionally, four preclinical programmes against undisclosed targets are being pursued in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim. Menrad will be responsible for the ongoing development of the Nanobody® platform, and will identify and prioritise new therapeutic programmes that Ablynx will pursue either on its own or with partners. The new CSO arrives from Genzyme, where he held the position of General Manager and Vice President of Antibody Therapeutics. Before joining Genzyme in 2007 Andreas Menrad worked with German Schering AG.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/people/bio-people/2012-01/andreas-menrad.html


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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
August 15, 2007
Wind Power Growth Threatened by Supply Constraints, Says AWEA
The U.S. wind power industry is on track for installing well over 3,000 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines this year, but future growth may be hampered by a limited supply of turbines, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). AWEA's second-quarter market report notes that wind turbines with the capacity to produce 1,059 MW of power were installed in the first half of 2007, including 603 MW in Texas alone. Despite the opening of a new wind blade manufacturing plant in Arkansas, and plans to open manufacturing plants for towers, blades, and turbines in five other states, AWEA warns that the demand is exceeding the supply. See the AWEA press release.
At least one U.S. wind power manufacturer is supporting the industry by purchasing the output from its own product. DMI Industries, a manufacturer of wind towers, is purchasing renewable energy credits from wind power facilities to offset all the electricity used in its North Dakota plant. While supporting the wind industry, the purchase also effectively reduces the greenhouse gases generated in creating new wind power facilities that use DMI's towers. In other words, the purchase helps to further lower the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of new wind power facilities. See the DMI press release.


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Eloquent. Touching. Funny.
Those are just a few of the qualities that can make an Oscar acceptance speech golden.
With that in mind, here are the five best of the night.
1. Jared Leto, supporting actor for "Dallas Buyers Club": You can never go wrong bestowing a heartfelt thanks to mom, but Leto, who inhabited the role of Rayon in "Buyers Club," did so with poetic grace. His carefully worded yet candid speech not only honored his mom, who was in attendance, but singled out others who helped turned the film into a reality. Then the unconventional actor ended it on a most appropriate note, honoring the millions who have lost the battle to AIDS and dedicating the award to those struggling with injustice. Couldn't have been said better.
2. Lupita Nyong'o, supporting actress for "12 Years a Slave": Leave it to a relative unknown to steal our hearts away. Nyong'o, so deserving for playing the complex part of the slave Patsey, made us all tear up with one beauty of a speech. Like Leto, she paid tribute to the significance of the film she was featured in, and also expressed her joy for having won. Her remarks were hopeful for future generations and generous -- especially for someone who was so emotional about winning. A star has been born.
3. Malcolm Clarke, "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life": In one of the show's most moving sequences, a shaken Clarke -- whose film won best documentary short -- spoke with a profound sense of fondness and respect for the subject of his film -- Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor. Sadly, Herz-Sommer, a passionate pianist, died recently. Her story will live on.
4. Alfonso Cuaron, best director for "Gravity": Not only did the talented filmmaker come across humble as he profusely showered praise on Sandra Bullock, but he was kind of adorable as some comments got tangled in the translation. "I want to share this with all the wise people who made this happen," he first said. He later said he wanted to thank the "the wise guys at Warner Bros." and then quickly self-corrected himself with the wise people. You had us at wise guys, Alfonso.
5. Matthew McConaughey, best actor "Dallas Buyers Club": The handsome actor gave perhaps the most individualized, idiosyncratic speech of the night. He thanked God, his family and friends, co-stars and then his "hero" self of the future. It was fascinating, and gave us a glimpse into the mindset and soul of one of our most intriguing actors working today.


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PhRMA Conversations - Introduction
Let's Have a Conversation
06.25.13 | By
Following PhRMA CEO John Castellani's post last week, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new forum, "Conversations." We hope you will join the debate on PhRMA.org as we ask some of the biggest questions in health care.
Our inaugural question is:
"If you could propose one idea to help improve health care delivery in the United States, what would it be?"
As John pointed out, each one of us brings a unique perspective to health policy, but we all have the same goal of providing high quality care to millions of patients. So, we would like to start an open, ongoing dialogue aimed at identifying areas of cooperation and action. No one organization has all the answers, so it is important to bring together diverse contributors to weigh in with different opinions to get us closer to our shared goal. This week, we've already received contributions from the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, National Health Council and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
I'm very excited about this next step in our social media efforts. Our work is just getting started and we look forward to hearing your perspectives in the weeks and months ahead.
Please take a look at the forum when you have a minute and contribute your thoughts on today's question or share any ideas on potential topics you would like to see covered. We look forward to a healthy debate!


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An illustrated cover, Tuscany and a culinary journey – now, if that ain't a recipe (duh) for a wonderful book, then what is? We like that this book is not full of that modern molecular stuff, which is quite fascinating but also total abracadabra. The structure of the book is dead simple. After introducing on of ten Tuscan cities – the birthplace of Italian Cuisine, its typical produce is described, followed by one or two doable recipes. Pretty pictures, good typography. Delizioso!
€ 35.00
272 pages
Hardcover with jacket
March 2011
190×278×33 mm
1300 grams
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About the Book
The definitive account of Wall Street's stunning collapse
From critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC personality Charles Gasparino comes a sweeping examination of the most recent volatile, anxiety-ridden era in our nation's socioeconomic history. The Sellout traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks. It shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise. Gasparino walks readers through Wall Street's three-decades' love affair with risk, revealing a trail of culpability—from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership, to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt, to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back, to the homeowners who became convinced they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages. The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions, our government, and even average citizens abdicated their collective responsibilities, eventually selling out investors and selling off the American Dream itself.
In the spirit of classics such as Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker, this page-turning narrative captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street's dominance and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of middle-class Americans. Eye-opening and engrossing, The Sellout provides the most thorough investigation to date of this latest gilded era.
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Critical Praise
"[A] splendid account of the financial meltdown." — Wall Street Journal
The most comprehensive anecdotal account to date of the crisis.... Gasparino cuts his way through Wall Street rhetoric and in the process uncovers in considerable detail how blind profit-making ambition led to the destruction of the markets. — New York Review of Books
"Gasparino has consistently broken news on some of the biggest financial scandals of recent years, including the fall of Martha Stewart, Henry Blodget, and Jack Grubman. As anyone who reads the business pages knows, Charlie is one of the best reporters in the field." — Mark Whitaker, former editor, Newsweek
"Gasparino describes, in page-turning detail, a Wall Street world of ruthless financial titans.… No collection of courtroom documents will ever tell the story…as well as Mr. Gasparino does." — Wall Street Journal, on King of the Club
"A tough outsider willing to go to battle with anyone--colleague or contact-in pursuit of the story." — Financial Times
"An especially aggressive reporter." — Vanity Fair
"Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct." — New York Post
"Born in the Bronx to a construction worker and a housewife, Gasparino has risen from his working-class roots to become one of the most influential business reporters at work today." — PR Week
"Charles Gasparino sees the guts of Wall Street and the wreckage it leaves behind, day in and day out." — San Antonio Express-News
Product Details
- Imprint: Harper Business
- On Sale: 11/03/2009
- Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.317 in (d)
- Pages: 576
- List Price: 27.99 USD
- BISAC1: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General


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Judy Cornett, University of Tennessee College of Law, will discuss "Potential Changes in Tennessee Judicial Selection Process" at Lunch with the League on Tuesday, Oct. 15 (today). The meeting will begin at noon in the Social Hall of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, 1500 Oak Ridge Turnpike (traffic light No. 11).
In November 2014, Tennessee voters will vote on three proposed amendments to the Tennessee Constitution. One proposed amendment would create a semi-federal system of selecting Tennessee's appellate judges. This amendment would empower the governor to nominate a candidate who would then be subject to confirmation by both houses of the Tennessee General Assembly. Professor Cornett will discuss the history of the legislative battle over judicial selection and will analyze the proposed amendment, which has been touted as an alternative to popular election of appellate judges.
Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge, Lunch with the League is open to the public. There is no cost to attend, and reservations are not needed. Box lunches will be available starting at 11:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis for $8, or you may bring your own. Coffee and tea are provided.
The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government and works to increase understanding of public policy through unbiased studies of public issues. Membership is open to both men and women. For more information, please visit on line at lwvoakridge.org.
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Sage Francis wrote: Please don't tell me that this is the first time you guys have taken notice to my world famous yellow swim trunks. They've been part of my touring attire forever.
Sage Francis wrote: they are my only pair of shorts and I wear them every summer. I need to stop that.
squirtisblow wrote: damn, that's awesome, sage. i've always loved comic books growing up. It's something i kind of want to get back into, but i feel like i don't need to spend money on em again. You should send out some of those comics with SFR orders....
futuristxen wrote:
Stephen King is also doing a comic book right now called American Vampire which is supposedly very terrific.
C.R.A.Z.Y wrote: futuristxen wrote:
Stephen King is also doing a comic book right now called American Vampire which is supposedly very terrific.
i hope so because the art for The Stand and the Dark Tower were awful they looked like they were done by child interns. I couldnt even resell them at ten percent market value brand new.
Sarcastro wrote:
do you mean the random illustrations in the book before each section or like the cover art? or is there like a Dark Tower comic book or something?
Flossin wrote: I dig Jae Lee. But in most of his comics that I read the art was pretty damn dark to the point where I had some trouble figuring out what the hell is happening, to be honest. It might have been the inkers fault, though.
Coupled with Isanove, I think his art looks great.
I checked out some of those Dark Tower comics when they first came out but kinda stopped after a couple issues. My attention wandered off, I guess.