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75th Anniversary
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January 25th, 2011
The odds were against him. Friends and business associates advised him not to do it. But Fr. Louis Gales, an assistant at St. Agnes Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, had a dream — to bring the best of Catholic reading to Catholics everywhere. Few people had the financial resources to subscribe to all the fine Catholic publications of the day, and fewer still had the time to keep up with them all. So Gales's dream was to gather the best articles of the Catholic press, condense them, and offer them in one magazine.
Catholic publishers responded favorably to Gales's plan (a partial list can be found on page 49 of this first issue), so Gales enlisted two other priests to help him — Fr. Paul Bussard as editor, and Fr. Edward Jennings as business manager. And, with a dingy office in the basement steam plant of the St. Paul chancery office, with a few young workers recruited from local parishes, and with one-fiftieth the amount of money they were told they would need to succeed, they launched Catholic Digest, the very first issue of which is reproduced here.
You'll see themes in this issue that would carry on in Catholic Digest for decades, including liturgical renewal and a strong warning against the evils of communism. Don't miss the review of Margaret Mitchell's new (in 1936) novel Gone with the Wind, on page 56, and check out the ambitious proposal on page 6 to place a towering statue of Christ in Washington, DC. (Whatever happened to it? By the late 1940s Bishop Noll at Our Sunday Visitor had raised more than $150,000 for this project [almost $2 million], but while that might pay for a towering statue, it was not enough to buy the land to put it on, so Bishop Noll donated the collected money to build the façade of the new U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, including a 17-foot high statue of Christ, which still stands outside the newer USCCB headquarters opened in 1989.)
You might also notice on the cover that the annual subscription price to Catholic Digest in 1936 was $3.00. It seems like a deal, but that equals $47.63 in 2011 dollars, making today's subscription price of $22.95 the real bargain.
I hope you enjoy this first issue, and all our web features in our 75th anniversary year!
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WALSENBURG, Colo. - Colorado State Patrol is investigating two separate deadly crashes in Southern Colorado. Both happened within an hour of each other.
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Troopers say the driver lost control of his car, causing it to roll.
Raymond Campbell, 56, of Aurora was killed in the crash. Troopers say he was wearing his seat belt.
Troopers believe speed was a factor in a crash. They are also investigating whether alcohol and drugs were involved.
The second crash happened shortly before 1 p.m. Friday on Colorado 25, about 15 miles north of Trinidad.
Troopers say the driver of a truck lost control after a sudden tire failure, causing the truck to roll.
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Jillian Chooses Ed, Dumps Kiptyn and Reid on the Season Finale of "The Bachelorette"
Do you think Jillian chose the right man? Should Reid be the next "Bachelor"? Leave a comment and share your thoughts!
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It would be interesting to see Michael AND his identical twin brother as the next Bachelors, together. Didn't his brother say they always thought they would fall in love and get married around the same time in their lives?
- July 28, 2009 at 8:25 AM
seems as if Ed didn't leave to go back to his job - he left to break up with his girlfriend. Jillian has since figured that out and dumped him - she's now with Reid !! And Kipton is the next Bachelor. Go figure.
- July 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM
OMG that was quite the ending but didn't turn out how I thought it might. when Reid came back she looked thrilled, all smiles,holding him & then she says "WOW....this is so much just give me a bit to think about it!! Like if she was so in love with Ed then what was there to think about???? I truly believe if she had one day to give it thought & spend the day with him instead of "last minute pressure" knowing Ed was on his way, I feel she would have chosen Reid. And when she said to Chris "what should I do"....like huh?? BTW I was always a Jake fan so no bias here about Reid. Hope J & E live happily ever after but after seeing her with so much doubt I don't think so. And I'm soooo hoping JAKE is the next Bachelor!!
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yes, reid should be the next bachelor!!! HE IS AMAZING!!!
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More than 110 Saline County residents will celebrate the completion of their GED at a graduation ceremony hosted by the Saline County Adult Education Center on Friday, June 14.
The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. at Pulaski Technical College's Little Rock-South site at 13000 Interstate 30 in Little Rock. The public is invited to attend the ceremony and the reception that will follow.
"They have worked very hard toward this milestone, and we want to recognize their achievement," said Yvonne Dougherty, center director.
In keeping with tradition, each graduate will receive a rose to present to a family member, friend or teacher who has made a difference in his or her life.
This year's speaker is Tracey Hardin-Thompson, a 2011 graduate of the Saline County Adult Education Center and a 2013 Pulaski Technical College graduate. Hardin-Thompson participated in the college's commencement on May 18 and received her Technical Certificate in Airframe.
Jeffery Farrow, of Benton, who is one of this year's graduates and scholarship recipients, will be the student speaker.
Guests will include Shane Broadway, interim director of Arkansas Department of Higher Education; Rep. Ann Clemmer of Bryant; Rep. Kim Hammer of Benton; and Robert Holt, director of Let Our Violence End, which hosts a GED site at the Healing Waters Outreach Center in Shannon Hills; Dr. Margaret Ellibee, president of Pulaski Technical College; Dr. Michael DeLong, college provost; and Mary Ann Shope, vice president for learning at PTC.
Pulaski Technical College operates the Saline County Adult Education Center located at 16936 Interstate 30 in Benton at Exit 117. The center offers General Educational Development (GED) preparation, basic skills, English as a Second Language, and computer literacy programs for residents of Saline County and the surrounding area.
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Should you do tire maintenance in-house or contract for it? With your own people, you may have more control, but a contracted shop often can do it for less money.
In San Antonio, the city operates its Central Tire Shop with a crew of four, led by David Martinez. The shop takes care of tires for more than 4000 vehicles ranging from trash collectors to police cars to golf carts. The city repairs tires whenever possible and recaps them when necessary. The tire shop takes in flats and faulty tires, fixes them, and sends them out to four service centers plus the police garage. Martinez estimates the shop furnishes between 100 and 180 new and repaired tires daily.
"We stress to drivers to keep a close eye on tires," said Martinez. "We stress preventive maintenance. We tell them to get punctured tires fixed; don't just put air in them. Oil changes are done by our mechanics, and they check on tires at that time."
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North of the border in Toronto, doing tire maintenance in-house would be far more expensive than contracting for it, said Ross Petrini, fleet maintenance operations manager for the city. That's because J&F Tire, their contractor, uses nonunion workers and charges about $41 (Canadian) per hour, compared to the $72 per hour that Petrini would have to pay for his own labor.
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The contractor maintains six maintenance trucks on-call for road service whenever a city vehicle might need it. "If I had to do that, I'd have to buy trucks and put men and trucks on the road—workers at union wages, with overtime and premium wages for weekends and holidays," said Petrini. "It would be very expensive."
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He has only visited the forum about once or twice in the last month and the last time was a week ago. I have been trying to email him and PM him for nearly three weeks with no luck. Thanks.
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He has only visited the forum about once or twice in the last month and the last time was a week ago. I have been trying to email him and PM him for nearly three weeks with no luck. Thanks.
I got a PM from him last week about some stuff I was getting from him. My stuff arrived last Friday. I think he must be pretty busy because he usually responds quick to emails and PMs.
That'll be the last time he was on the forums then. But he isn't even answering emails and normally he always answers emails.
Strange...he is usually pretty prompt at doing that. Hope nothing is wrong and that he is just busy.
James is a pretty busy fella these days, and often goes away for work for some time here and there without much access to emails etc - bottom line, dont stress - he will definately respond to you asap, and is always good on following up anything you need from him :)
Been trying to contact him the last month with no success. Anyone here heard from him during this period through e-mail? He has been very busy and travels about a bit, I am aware of that after being in touch with him on and off for about a year, but just need to finish up some work he was doing for me.
I gave up on him after about four months. Thief.
Bad patter.
James has been good to many members, you WILL get your stuff :)
As has been suggested above- he could be rather busy. He has other stuff to do outside of propmaking and maybe hasn't had time to read emails or physical letters unless they are bill related or job related
James (BGHunter) said that he is working in the prop bussiness and don't have enough time to be on the forums. He's a good guy and I'm shure he will resolve whatever commissions he has.
Well then maybe he can tell kurty boy here where that is he can call his work Im sure theyd love to know hes neglecting his financial responsibilities
There is no excuse. Even people working in the prop business do not work 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. It all depends on how much you can be bothered.
I don't care if he ever visits a forum again for the rest of his life. That's his choice.
But if he's taken a vow never to visit a POST OFFICE again for the rest of his life, the least he could do is ask someone else to go for him.


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- Durango Joe6:21 AM
I used to think the wild was out there and the urban landscape was here, but now I realize the abut and interfinger with each other. Captivating to see totally wild scenes a few miles or a few feet from town. Sometimes the lines blur, like when that cougar took up residence at a local in town elementary school (it was summer, luckily for the kids). I bet that coyote neither knows nor cares that he lives next to the big city...ReplyDelete
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beautiful pictures! nothing cooler than stalking a coyote. I ran into a very bold one on ridgecrest (marin) a few weeks ago that wouldn't run away even as I yelled at him. pretty freaky, never seen one like that before. I was definitely a bit uneasy passing him as he stared me down.ReplyDelete
the dry winter grass is somewhat distressing! I'm used to seeing green hillsides by now..."juneuary" has been fun for mountain biking but I'm glad to see some rain and snow in the forecast...the hills (and reservoirs) need it. I think our dry winter reality will be changing later today...
Steven's Creek Loop used to be my quick after work ride a few years back. It was cool to meet you last Saturday while riding it again after many months.ReplyDelete
I now live 50 ft from Waterdog trails in Belmont, a well maintained urban trail system, thanks to Passion Trails Bike shop in Belmont. You can ride about 10 miles of somewhat technical singletrack in a canyon surrounded by houses. Great views of the Bay, too. Isn't this place amazing, despite many trails being closed to bikes (especially in San Mateo county)?
It was great to meet you, too! It took me a day to put together who you were by the comments on my blog. I was hoping you'd get in touch with me and perhaps we can put together a long loop one of these days. I also would love to be introduced to some new trails. My e-mail is email@example.com.
It's funny that you consider Steven's Creek a "quick" ride. I ride it from my house but consistently log 25 miles and 3,500 feet of climbing on the ol'GPS. My best time on that loop is 2:21 but I usually take 2:45-3 hours to ride it depending on how many photo stops I make. Of course, Beat and I used to ride it after work when there was enough daylight to do so without getting caught in the preserve after dark.


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Looks like it was already used for an anchor! LOL
If you are going to jazz up a ford 400. Get a high volume/pressure oil pump. Ford in their infinite wisdom oils the main bearings last.
Looks like it was already used for an anchor! LOL
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
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Looks like it's the car Hoffa was buried in.
If the left can make a cowardly mass muderer like che guevara a hero, I can make PinoCHEt one.
(That is not my Buick in the photo)
Hank the Crank and Mario Rossi went to elaborate lengths to alter the Cleveland oiling system. Down in Australia, nobody worried much about it, either at the drags or at Bathurst.
I had one stroker engine stick a valve on the run stand, for no reason I ever found out. It pretzeled a Manton pushrod and spat a lifter out, which dropped the oil pressure to zero. I welded up a retained bar and bolted it into the lifter valley; it keeps the lifters from coming out. I've done that to several Clevelands since.
I live THREE miles from town & am disabled. My wife is a quad. I just want a fun grocery getter with a comfy ride at the same time. I can put more stuff in this trunk than the little pickups I see around.
I don't expect to be taxing the oiling system all that much. But I did get the high volume Melling pump.And I may or may not use restrictors to redirect the flow a bit. I'll talk to my machinist about it. Hell even if I grenade it.....I only have to crawl on my hands & kneees a couple miles at the most..Heh...heh
" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"
I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............
When you assemble the motor, make sure to Plastigage the main bearing clearance. Ford had an intermittent problem with oversize main bearing bores on the 400. If your clearance exceeds spec PM me for further details.
Will do. Thanks for tip. I plan to get it align honed. I have plasigage & bore mikes . From my racing days I have a habit of checking maybe TOO many times.
Sucks too get it back in the car & have low oil pressure right off the bat.Or spin the bearing. I ran my 2300 pinto up to 7000 rpm's by the end of the straight
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Don't align hone it unless you have to. Check by dropping the crank in on dry bearings, Plastigaging to check for excess clearance (which would point to a possible oversize bore problem), and then oiling the bearings and spinning the crank with your hand, no rear main seal. If it spins freely, the block (and crank) are straight enough.
Besides the $100-$175 cost of align honing the block, you'll be out $100 or more for a .003-.005 undersize timing set.
Too bad you don't live closer; between Fords and Kalashnikovs, we could probably find something to yak about...
eons ago i raced the old 351c mills some --only time one failed was cause the oil pump shaft twisted off. had a 340 mo-pig do the same thing once--
i don't recall any serious oiling problems with it. it was one of the more fun fords we built--
at one time i was thinking of building a 426 stroker mill from a assortment of 351/400/ and 351w parts for an AC kit project. i figure some of you remember that 426ci 351w kit that PAW out at chatsworth sold back in the day?
only thing this one had aluminum 351 boss heads with 7/16 studs and so on. so it was sort of a mini-big block chevy painted ford blue--
the cobra deal fell through and i ended up selling the mill new in crate and never fired it up--LOL
the fellow that bought it said it was a real screamer though---
we didn't build that many fords -i wanted to build a 429-460 back when summit was selling those big -altered port heads-- but never got around to it.
-mostly chevy big blocks with a few MOPARs tossed in for fun.
those were the good old days--LOL!''hell we thought that 500hp 327 chevy was er--small back in the day--
Looks like some of the gun parts sold by SARCO as excellent condition, yukedy, yuk!


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November 24-30: This Week in Black History
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In February, Jeff Johnson talked about Black History Month coming to a close. He said it shouldn't be celebrated just once a year but everyday or every week. He asked that we set aside at least one evening or one day a week to talk about black history and to keep it alive. We plan to honor his request with a gallery every week this month to celebrate significant events, timelines, births and to remember those who have passed away.


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Every team controls their own destiny.

The problem was that we had to win one more game than we would have if they had gotten the call right. But yes, we could have gone 16-0.

or we could have beat Philly one of the two games...we should have.
yea i don't even get why everybody always singles out the Titans
They were 5-2 to start the season
The left handed pick in the endzone stands out. It was a comedy of errors. We **** the bed. Kind of like the Seattle game.
i'll admit im in the minority of that, but i still don't kill him for that
he was trying to make a play under pressure. If he got it there with some more zip hes a ****in genious and gets deep throated by all of NY.
When you're response to every bad decision is that "he was just trying to make a play" then there is no need to argue with you.

You are the only Giants fan on earth who thinks that was an acceptable decision. Let ask all the other Eli Cultists if they think that was a good play. You are alone Matt. Alone on this earth.

This is why we shant be discussing Eli at dinner.
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whatever its fine i'll at least admit im in the minority. It was back breaking and killer and ultimately decided the game - but again I would rather my QB try to make a play if he thinks he can
BUT regardless theres no way you should feel like the TITANS game was a bigger upset for this team than Philly 2. If your going to compare the two back to back, Philly two hsould of been won WAY more than the Titans game


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A major artist who contributes to the room decor at Hacienda del Desierto Bed & Breakfast is Lori Simons from New Hampshire who spends almost a month with us every year. An original water color hangs over the desk area in the Galleria guestroom, and a still life print hangs in that bathroom. The Patio Suite guestroom also has an original oil painting of Sabino Canyon.
In other areas of the Bed & Breakfast are original watercolors of the front gate entrance, the courtyard, and Agua Caliente Park. She also helped me design and execute a wall mural of an ocotillo for our office wall. A small table also has a painting of a Javalina. Guests who visit in February look forward to her stay with us, often purchasing new work she brings with her.
Agua Caliente Park, the subject of the painting, is 15 minutes north of our Tucson lodging. There are natural springs there which create a birding habitat. It is truly an oasis in the desert.
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Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, where he runs the nation's largest undergraduate-major program in that discipline. His popular book on astrobiology, The Living Cosmos, was published by Random House in 2007.
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
I am an astronomer and educator who has worked at the University of Arizona for 20 years. Running the academic program keeps me busy day to day; we have 30 faculty, several hundred of our own students and several thousand taking our introductory astronomy courses. I'm from Scotland, but long ago left the damp climate and cramped circumstance of my homeland for the clear skies and wide-open spaces of the American West. My research focuses on active galaxies, doing surveys to see how supermassive black holes have grown over cosmic time.
I have side projects to try and understand dark matter and dark energy, the twin imponderables at the heart of the modern picture of the universe. I love observing; the several hundred dawns I've seen from high mountaintops include some of the best moments of my life.
Teaching is essential for me. The restless energy of students forces you to re-engage your own knowledge, even in the context of a course for non-science majors. I've written two astronomy textbooks and many research papers, but the constraints of those formats sometimes chafe, so I have moved steadily in the direction of popular writing, and I put my wilder musings into several blogs. I believe every scientist who can write for a popular audience should do so; we face a crisis of science literacy in this country, and a large part of the population has disengaged from a scientific way of thinking. Most of the people I meet dislike or merely tolerate their jobs. I never forget how lucky I am to be paid to think about how the universe works.
What books are you currently reading (or have you just finished reading) for your work or for pleasure? Why did you choose them, and what do you think of them?
I just read The Happiness Myth by Jennifer Michael Hecht (HarperSanFrancisco, 2007). She is a social historian and poet who just visited to give lectures on what we might expect when we encounter life elsewhere in the universe. She is analytic but has a wicked sense of humor, neatly jumping out of the box to view human strivings and failings. I recently read The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), which is a magisterial book on evolution. For fun, Jane Smiley's Ten Days in the Hills (Knopf, 2007), and I dip into poems from The Essential Rumi (Harper, 1995).
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My mind gets numbed by all the reports and turgid prose I have to read as an administrator, so I find it hard to fit more leisurely reading into the day. Some evenings, I get a nice block of time to read; no music, just the tick of a clock for company. Mornings on the weekend are best.
Who are your favorite writers (fiction, nonfiction or poetry)? Why?
I am attracted to ideas, so I tend to like the "clever dick" fiction writers like Martin Amis, Don DeLillo, John Updike and Will Self. There are a few who are so automatic that I will read everything they write: Toni Morrison, Jane Smiley, Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee. In nonfiction, Jon Krakauer is a masterful storyteller who reaches out of the page to pull you into the intense worlds he recreates. For pure fun, I enjoy the crazed characters and humorous set pieces in Carl Hiaasen's Florida-based novels, and for enjoyable crime I turn to Walter Mosley, Ruth Rendell and my homeboy Ian Rankin. In the bleak-but-beautiful category, anything by Annie Proulx or Cormac McCarthy. Poetry scratches a place other writing can't reach. At times I turn to Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson and E. E. Cummings.
What are the three best books you've ever read? Explain.
An almost impossible question. The books and writers that nourish you change, but all remain important because you draw on them in ways you barely recognize.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper & Row, 1970) blew me away when I read it as a young man because I had never been drawn so completely into such a richly imagined world. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (Viking Press, 1973) managed a similar trick, and I loved its playful use of math and science. More recently, I would say Ian McEwan's Saturday (Doubleday, 2005), because it seemed to me almost pitch-perfect and the work of a fine writer at the very top of his game.
What book has influenced you most? Explain how.
Another hard call, like picking which of your kids has meant the most to you.
But I would drop back to my childhood and The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (Random House, 1961), with wonderfully evocative illustrations by Jules Feiffer. It is the adventure of a boy and his dog in a fanciful world where numbers and letters are just as much characters as the people. A perfect whimsy to unlock and fuel the imagination of any young person. A close second would be Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson (Bantam Books, 1992), which is just as visionary today as when it first came out, or Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Faber and Faber, 1984).
Name three books you want to read but haven't gotten to yet.
I always have a few small piles of books staring at me balefully from my desk or table. Currently near the top are The World Is Flat, by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), God: The Failed Hypothesis, by Victor Stenger (Prometheus Books, 2007), and a fat one by Don DeLillo, Underworld (Scribner, 1997). Too many books, too little time.
What book recommendations do you have for young readers?
For young readers, The Phantom Tollbooth, mentioned above, and A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (Ariel Books, 1962). Many kids devoured the Harry Potter series, but far fewer have experienced the extraordinary power of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, 1995, The Subtle Knife, 1997, The Amber Spyglass, 2000). They are richly imagined and filled with wonderful characters. They are equally important books for adults to read.
What science book recommendations do you have for nonscientists?
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Simon Singh's Fermat's Last Theorem (Fourth Estate, 1998) takes highly abstract math and turns it into a gripping detective story. Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe (W. W. Norton, 1999) justly became a bestseller by laying out the extraordinary nature of matter and space in the light of modern fundamental theories. There are many more, but then you would be faced with the same baleful piles that I have to deal with.
Name one book in your discipline that you would recommend for scientists outside your field. Explain your choice.
This is easy. Tim Ferris' Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Morrow, 1988). It's currently overdue for an update and second edition, but no matter. In my mind it is the very best single book to give the full sweep of astronomy to a nonscientist. It took him 10 years and was a labor of love, and the quality of the writing is outstanding. Readers will get a full sense of the intellectual journey that has taken us from Greek speculations about the size and location of the Earth to an awareness of humans as the detritus of stellar evolution on a rocky cinder around one among trillions of stars in a vast, expanding universe.
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Fogle, Douglas. "Thomas Schütte." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Like the lone figure in Caspar David Friedrich's painting Wanderer in the Sea of Fog (circa 1818), Thomas Schütte is an aesthetic itinerant. His incredibly diverse body of work is difficult to categorize in that it encompasses a wide spectrum of media, form, scale, and approach. As he himself has suggested, "Doing my work is like hiking through the Alps and getting lost every ten minutes. It's important to have different perspectives opening up all the time."1 One could say that Schütte is a sculptor, but that wouldn't tell the whole story. He is, rather, an artist who has spent his entire career interrogating the monumental in its various incarnations, moving deftly from the realm of the architectural to that of the figure.
In fact, for the past fifteen years or so, figuration has become a central concern for Schütte. By the early 1990s, after having spent the previous decade making functional architectural projects, sculptures resembling architectural models, and large-scale installations, he turned his attention almost exclusively to sculpting the human form. Although early on in his career he inserted small figures into his architectural models (ranging from store-bought Star Wars action models to his own handmade versions), this practice became the centerpiece of his United Enemies series, a breakout body of work begun in 1993. Subtitled "a play in ten scenes," these sculptures consist of puppetlike forms whose heads are rendered in Fimo, a children's modeling clay. Each figure features a distorted, hairless face reminiscent of a medieval gargoyle or a mask for carnival. They are individually wrapped in material taken from the artist's discarded clothing and are then bound together with wire before being placed under a glass dome mounted on top of a tall, cylindrical plinth.
The Walker Art Center's example from this series, Untitled, dates from 1995 and includes three of Schütte's homunculi mercilessly bound together as if being prepared for an uncomfortable voyage to some level of Dante's Inferno. What exactly is uniting these enemies? Are their grotesque visages the karmic results of some unknown historical misdeeds? These are strangely mute antimonuments, presenting their contents as if they were abducted from a display case in an anthropological museum or from a cabinet of curiosities. The theatrical impact is only heightened by Schütte's decision to photographically reproduce the faces of these characters in his Innocenti (The Innocents) series. In these large black-and-white images, the faces of the so-called innocenti completely fill the frame, their chiaroscuro lighting accentuating every wrinkle, line, and corrupted fold of flesh. Always hung high on the gallery wall, these figures stare down defiantly, smirking at us with a knowing arrogance. Of what exactly are they innocent? One is reminded of Adolf Eichman or of Slobodan Miloševi´c, another breed of self-proclaimed innocenti of the twentieth century. In the end, however, these figures are simply puppets. They are mute containers that are open to our own projections, becoming a kind of screen on which memory and forgetfulness (both personal and historical) play out their duet.
As he has done so often to great effect, Schütte radically shifted his scale in a subsequent series of bronze sculptures that includes Bronze Woman IV (1998/2000). Here the artist also moves effortlessly from the register of the monumentality of history to that of modernism. Originally cast in steel, this series consists of nine heroically scaled but formally altered female nudes that each in its own way refuses to function within the traditional framework of monumental, figurative sculpture. Each figure rests on top of an oxidizing steel table whose brute materiality calls to mind the abstracted sculptural planes of Richard Serra's work. The rigid geometries of these self-immolating, minimalist platforms stand in direct contrast to the biomorphic curves of the women's bodies. Although these women emerged out of Schütte's fascination with the heavy and at times brutal sculptures of Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse, they resist that modern figurative tradition. One body flows over itself in great folds as it makes its way off the table, while another reclines in a supine position only to reveal a strange multiplication of her breasts. Bronze Woman IV lies flattened on her steel table unable to move under the weight of some unknown force. Perhaps her flatness is due to the gravitational pull of the monumental. It is the event horizon of that black hole that Schütte has spent his entire career trying to escape.
From James Lingwood, "James Lingwood in conversation with Thomas Schütte," in Julian Heynen, James Lingwood, and Angela Vettese, Thomas Schütte (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1998), 24. Schütte's diverse approach to his work is in part the result of having studied at the famed Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1970s under the tutelage of sculptor Fritz Swegler and painter Gerhard Richter. ↩
Fogle, Douglas. "Thomas Schütte." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Being that about 7-8 guys get 10+ sacks rushing on the left side, and only about 2-3 guys get 10+ sacks rushing from the other end each year, completely negates what Sapp is saying about strahan. Being on the strong side makes you much easier to double team and stra consistently beat those while getting to the QB.
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Discussion in 'Football, Baseball, and Hockey' started by OLD SKOOL HQ, Mar 4, 2007.
I'm headed to the Sox-Tigs game tonight. I hope it doesn't get rained out... or snow.
Zoom lost his focus. It's not often he comes into the game in the 9th with the 6 run lead. But it was strange non the less to see him walk 4 guys in an inning. On the positive note, Durbin finally got a good outing in. He was great at Toledo last year, but I guess he was never able to translate minor league success into a starting job in the majors. Sheff is starting to get back to his normal self, and Maggs is on a roll. Now we need to get the bottom half of our lineup going and we'll be just peachy.
It did get rained out, I was hoping the Tigs can keep their hot hitting going, but oh well, they'll have to continue at home.
Zoom lost his focus. It's not often he comes into the game in the 9th with the 6 run lead. But it was strange non the less to see him walk 4 guys in an inning. " I think the sleet got to him. At least Jones got it done.
Man... I had great seats for once and it gets rained out. They cancelled the game at about 3:30 in the afternoon (why???) and then it cleared up and was perfect for the rest of the night. Looking at the radar at 3:30, it was obvious that the storm was about to pass over. I didn't think they did it like that in baseball. I've been to games where we had to sit there for 2 hours in the rain before they cancelled.
I didn't know they called it off that early. I saw it was postponed at mlb.com. Somehow it always happens that way. On the other hand, maybe you could get to the game when they make this up and the weather is nicer. Hopefully it'll work out.
The Tigers are struggling. There defense is terrible, way to many errors (two more today). Leyland and Ledezma got ejected in today's game after an apparent "obstruction of the baserunner" call after a rundown at third to home! AND they ended up losing 11-3.
Brandon Inge hit a homer in the bottom of the ninth to salvage what was a great weekend at least for the other Detroit sports teams. (Tigs beat Twins 4-3) Pistons finish off sweep, Red Wings avoid going down 0-2 heading out west, Lions draft a couple of playas, including a Spartan and 4 or 5 Wolverines get drafted in the first two rounds of the NFL draft. The Tigers avoided another sweep, but the defending AL Champs need to get their act together with that hitting. All 13 victories seem to be the result of the long ball and most of the losses seem to be of the 1-2 run margin. They need to get some consistent hitting to compete with the teams their dvision which you see is already beating each other up.
Tigers also need to get their pitching straightened out. The bullpen had been inconsistent, and they blew several saves just this past week. Zoom needs to get it together. Rodney seems to be doing better, and Jones... well, that guy's nick says it all - "rollercoaster".
So, what do you know? The Tigs sweep the Baltimore and things are looking much better: The bullpen looked solid Sheff, Inge, Monroe, and Casey are warming up Polanco is a beast Maggs is an animal I know it was against team that lost 9 of 10, but still the Tigers are finally finding some solid grounds under their feet. Lets just hope they can keep it up.
Why did Balt. try to dis' Sheffield? They threw at him yesterday and since then he is 5 for 5 with 2 dongs. Nice 4-3 win today...Sheff 4 for 4!!!
Mario Impbemba made a comment (with no prior knowledge) about Shef's relationship with Baltimore saying that it is quite possible the bad blood started when Shef was a Yank since New York and Baltimore play each other 17 times a season. Plenty of time to get pissed at one another.
If I start getting into baseball statistics, I'm in trouble. But, just want to point out that Detroit has 4 players in the top 20 in the AL for on-base-percentage. If this is a slump for Shef, then I'm pretty excited to see what he can really do. #7- Mags .421 #13 Guillen .402 #18 Polanco .397 #20 Sheffield .383
I dunno if Mags can keep it up at this rate, but it would be awesome if he can. Sheff's should go up, because he's only hitting .226 at this time and it should get better and his K's should come down with his walks remaining about the same. Guillen is right where he's been for the past few years. And Polanco is the toughest out in the MLB. He only K'd 3 times in over 110 at bats. I just hope that Granderson can inch closer to this group.
aFTER THIS WEEK I GOT TWO WORDS ABOUT THE TIGERS.... WE'REEE BAAAAA-AAACKK! TRUST ME......
I sure hope you're correct, sir.
Tigers win again...17-11!! Hopin 4 a sweep! Playing like the Pistons and Wings, not one player is leading the charge. Pudge went 0-5 vs Royals 2nite, but could go 4-4 with 3 rbi tomorrow!! Go bengals!!
Sheff needs to take his walks. He had 13 during that slump.
6 wins in a row and tied for the 1st. Cleveland finally cooled off. Their pitching is going to give them troubles. I just hope that Tigers pitching can hold up. Maroth is struggling, Durbin only pitched one good game. We need Rogers back in the top shape, and Maroth needs to get it together. The hitting is coming on strong, Maggs has been on a tear. Sheff, Monroe, and Casey are warming up. Polanco is hitting every pitch. Rodriguez cooled off a bit as well as Granderson, but there are enough live bats to keep things moving along. Inge is still struggling, at .160.
Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya is expected to be out for 12 weeks because of a ruptured tendon in his middle right finger. That's a tough loss for the Tigers and it weakens our bullpen and the depth in the bullpen for a little while. Lets see if other guys can step it up.
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April 29, 2014, Washington, DC: It doesn't take long after meeting local business owner Matt Weiss that we're deep in conversation about the power of a good location and a belief in this neighborhood. We're sitting in a Capitol Hill basement known as the Elixir Bar within Weiss' new establishment, Barrel, a whiskey joint on the 600 block of Pennsylvania Ave. SE. We're in agreement that this is a curious block. For years, the turnover on this stretch was rampant despite its geographical allure as a strip of the city that connects the bars and restaurants closest to the US Capitol with those on Barracks Row and at Eastern Market. The block is home to a post office, an old mattress store and a realtor's office, but hasn't been much of a hub for good food and drink. And yet within the last two years, there's been a noticeable shift. This stretch is now offering a bit more connectivity with the addition of new bars and restaurants including Hank's Oyster Bar, Beuchert's Saloon, Sona Creamery, and now, as of three weeks ago, Barrel.


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I can just imagine what she said when she asked Lane to pose like that "Lets give the haters something to talk about" hehehehehe
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Ontario, California-based Uyemura USA has been named a certified supplier of eSurface Technologies manufacturing process for printed circuit boards.
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Spectators look on as hundreds of amateur and professional paddlers participate in the 2015 General Clinton Canoe Regatta. The 70-mile canoe race—the longest single-day canoe race in North America—is held each year on Memorial Day weekend. Teams begin in Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, New York, with the first finishers reaching Bainbridge, New York, in about eight hours.
First held in 1963, the General Clinton Canoe Regatta started as a way for the Chamber of Commerce in Bainbridge, New York, to promote community and tourism. The event is named after Revolutionary War figure Brigadier General James Clinton. As part of a campaign, General Clinton had his men dam the Susquehanna River—allowing waters in Otsego Lake, the river's source, to rise. They then destroyed the dam, flooded the river and rode in canoes on the high waters to surprise their adversaries downstream.
Originally just a single, one-day canoe race, the regatta has grown to a four-day spectacle full of live music, a 5K run, carnival rides and fireworks. But the canoe races are still the main event, with close to 1,000 participants in the 2016 regatta.
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From the restoration of wetlands and forests to the reduction of urban, suburban and agricultural runoff, 39 environmental projects across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have received close to $11 million in funding through the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund, which is administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and funded primarily by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Twenty-eight projects will be funded through the Small Watershed Grants Program, which supports on-the-ground restoration, habitat conservation and community engagement. Eleven more will be funded by the Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants Program, which finances projects aimed at reducing nutrient and sediment pollution in rivers, streams and the Bay. The 39 projects will collectively leverage an additional $12 million in matching funds, for a total of $23 million to improve the health of the watershed.
Projects will help restore habitat and protect local waterways across the Bay watershed, which spans across parts of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. In Maryland, for instance, Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage will work to restore 15 acres of non-tidal wetlands at Canterbury Farm on the Eastern Shore. In Pennsylvania, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay will use outreach and agricultural "best management practices" to improve drinking water supplies in the Octoraro Creek watershed. And in Virginia and West Virginia, the Potomac Conservancy will use conservation easements to protect 600 acres of forests and fields from development.
Officials and guests announced the awards this morning at the Pennsylvania State University's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center in Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania.
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On August 25th, the National Park Service will be celebrating its 100th anniversary, commemorating a century of stewardship, recreation and land conservation. Looking for a way to celebrate? Across the country, you can make use of "fee-free days"—free admission to all National Park Service sites—from August 25th through 28th. Or you can check out one of the many National Park Service Centennial events happening at parks, battlefields and historic sites across the Chesapeake Bay region, such as the ones listed below.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year is the nation's first water-based national historic trail, a nearly-3,000 mile trail that follows the combined routes of Captain John Smith's historic voyages on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
On August 25th, both the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail (NHT) and Star-Spangled Banner NHT will be staffing an informational booth at the city dock in downtown Annapolis, Maryland.
On August 27th, a Visitor Contact Station for the Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT will officially launch at the Zimmerman Center for Heritage in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. The celebration will include programs and activities for all ages, including a birthday cake.
Nicknamed "America's front yard," the National Mall is the most visited national park in the country. The National Mall and Memorial Parks consist of nearly 1,000 acres throughout Washington, D.C., including sites located off of the mall itself.
On August 27th, the National Park Service will be hosting a family fun day at Constitution Gardens, feature live music, storytelling, face painting and other activities. Exhibits will include Lego models of national parks, virtual reality park tours and more.
An 800-acre park located just 15 miles from Washington, D.C., Great Falls Park follows the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia. The northern boundary of the park is home to the Great Falls—a series of rapids and waterfalls that make the site a popular kayaking and whitewater rafting destination.
On August 27, the park will be celebrating both the Centennial and its own 50th anniversary with a night under the stars, including a performance by the Loudoun Jazz Ensemble and a movie screening.
Managed by the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture in cooperation with the National Park Service and Montgomery County, Glen Echo Park is a cultural resource full of visual and performing arts, educational offerings and historic buildings.
On August 27, the park will be celebrating one hundred years of the National Park Service with a day full of events: a performance by the U.S. Army Band, National Park Service history lessons, face painting, historical reenactors and more.
For nearly 100 years, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal provided communities along the Potomac River with coal, lumber and agricultural products. The nearly 185-mile waterway—which extends from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown, Washington, D.C.—served as the primary means of transporting coal from the Allegheny Mountains during its operation from 1831 to 1924. Today, a towpath trail follows the length of the canal, allowing visitors to hike and bike along the scenic route.
On August 25th, the park's Centennial celebrations will include a birthday card, cake and ice cream. The first 60 participants will receive a free boat ride along the canal, and visitors can hear a program about the legacy of the National Park Service or see a C&O Canal fashion show.
Located where the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers meet, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park includes land in West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. Its nearly 4,000 acres are make up what Thomas Jefferson once called "perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature" after visiting the area in 1783.
On August 25th, Harpers Ferry will be hosting a Founders' Day Naturalization Ceremony, commemorating the Centennial with a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service naturalization ceremony featuring guest speakers, music and reception.
Located in Adams County, Pennsylvania, this historic site protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the deadliest battle in the American Civil War. The park covers much of the battlefield and several non-battle areas, including Gettysburg National Cemetery.
On August 25th, the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center will be hosting special programs and tours, as well as giving out free cake. And from April through October, the park hosts Living History Weekends, where Civil War reenactors encamp on the Gettysburg battlefield.
This historic battlefield located near Urbana Pike, Maryland, commemorates the site of the Battle of Monocacy, known as "The Battle That Saved Washington." In summer of 1864, Confederate soldiers were planning to capture Washington, D.C., but federal soldiers along the banks of the Monocacy River were able to delay their approach long enough for Union reinforcements to arrive and defend the capital.
On August 25th, the site will host programs that focus on the history of the National Park Service, and the first 100 visitors will receive a cupcake and a chance to enter to win a Centennial gift package.
Located along the Potomac River near Fort Washington, Maryland, this park—celebrating its 70th anniversary this year—is home to a 200-year-old fort that served for many years as the only defensive fort protecting Washington, D.C.
On August 27th and 28th, the site will host a Centennial event that includes reenactors from the War of 1812 through World War II talking about military life in their respective time periods, as well as cannon firing demonstrations from the Fort Washington Guard.
In February, 1732, George Washington was born on his father's farm in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Although the original home was destroyed in 1779, a memorial house was built in the early 1930s, where the National Park Service now operates a colonial farm and living historians demonstrate the typical life on an 18th-century plantation.
On August 27th, rangers and volunteers will celebrate the Centennial with a look back at the period when the monument was created—the 1930s—by showcasing the fashion, music and games of the era.
See more events happening at National Park Service sites across the Bay region, or use the Find Your Chesapeake site to find a new place to explore.
A pileated woodpecker chips away the bark on a fallen tree before probing for insects in Chenango Valley State Park in Broome County, New York.
Growing up to 20 inches in length with a nearly 30 inch wingspan, the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopous pileatus) is one of the largest species of woodpecker. This striking bird with its bright-red crest can be found year-round throughout most of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. But don't expect to see a pileated woodpecker as a backyard birder: this bird is most likely to be found in mature, old-growth forests full of dead trees and fallen logs (although it can sometimes be found in young forests, as well).
With a characteristic thunk sound, the pileated woodpecker uses its long neck and chisel-like bill to powerfully strike logs, stumps and dead trees, leaving behind a distinctive rectangular-shaped hole. It then uses its spear-like, barbed tongue to feed on ants, termites, beetle larvae and other insects.
Experts believe populations of pileated woodpeckers may have declined in previous centuries, due to the clearing of forests in the eastern United States. But since the mid-20th century, populations have steadily increased as the forests rebounded.
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Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus brings together for the first time many of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn's finest paintings, prints and drawings that portray Jesus and events described in the Bible. The exhibition of 64 works includes approximately 52 small, intimate paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt and his students that illustrate how Rembrandt broke from traditional 17th-century representations of Jesus.
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This exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Musée du Louvre, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In Detroit, the exhibition is generously sponsored by The Cracchiolo Family. Additional support has been provided by the City of Detroit.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Head of Jesus, attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648/1650, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts
Western portrayals of Jesus in the 17th century were based on ancient Greek sculpture and Renaissance imagery, and represented him as either heroic in action or as the embodiment of profound suffering. Rembrandt's own initial renderings of Jesus conformed to this tradition. In the 1640s, Rembrandt developed a radically different concept. He was the first Western artist to present Jesus as Jewish, likely based on models from Amsterdam's vibrant Jewish neighborhood where he lived and worked. Additionally, he depicted Jesus as vulnerable and humble, one whose existence compelled reverence in the minds and imaginations of those around him.
Two masterpieces in the exhibition illustrate the significant shift in Rembrandt's approach: Supper at Emmaus, a hauntingly beautiful painting of the biblical account of Jesus' appearance to his followers after his resurrection; and Christ Healing the Sick, also known as The Hundred Guilder Print, which shows Jesus preaching before a crowd. The Hundred Guilder Print showcases Rembrandt's unparalleled mastery of printmaking, as every printmaking style and technique in his repertoire was used to create its stunning effect.
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Selena Gomez is almost legal to fuckFriday, May 21st, 2010
Again, we're plagued by our one enemy when it comes to teen celebrities: age. They're still quite young, but their hotness is so tantalizing it hurts us not to have a crack at them. Like Selena Gomez here, who's still a few months from being legally fuckable, but for now, let's play the waiting game on this potential slut until she's shed her squeaky clean image. But even now, she's already being spotted with the Jonas Brothers, probably planning the crazy orgy they'll do to welcome Selena's cunt to eighteenhood with a bang. She isn't even holding herself back, this girl Selena. She's letting herself be captured by the paparazzi, with her slender legs and body decorating the beach in a purple , cameltoe-making two-piece. Selena Gomez, if you weren't such a potential piece of slut, we wouldn't have bothered waiting for your 18th birthday on tenterhooks, when we finally see you rocking Hollywood like your older sisters Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, and today's paparazzi favorite, Lindsay Lohan. All you have to do is step into the shoes these certified sluts have torn apart with their scandalous behaviors and you'll be one step closer to fitting right among the skanks of Tinseltown. Until then, we'll wait.