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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - March 11, 2011, New Braunfels, Texas Page 4 — Herald-Zeituno — Friday, March 11, 2011 FORUM Our Opinion No contested races in city Monday is the* last day for candidates to file for the New Braunfels mayoral and city council races. There are two council seats on the May ballot and the mayoral seat. As of this writing, only one candidate has filed for each seat. If no one else decides to run, that will mean after the May 14 election the only member of city council who actually won his seat in a race will be Mark Goodner. Goodlier won his hid fora second term as the District 2 representative in May 2010 after defeating challenger Richard l.a Rochelle. Voters chose Goodner by a more than two-to-one margin, with the city councilor receiving 306 votes to I.a Rochelle's 131. That's right. Unless someone steps up, after May 14 every city councilor save one will have run unopposed. While the people who have chosen to run are good candidates, it is a sad situation when so few people are willing to volunteer to lead New Braunfels. Yes, those who run for city council put themselves on the public stage for criticism from their fellow citizens. Yes, it is a demanding job — if done well. But it 's also rewarding to shape and steer the future of the community you love. A cursory l(x>k at the 2010 census figures, or an early morning glance at 1-35, will tell you New Braunfels is changing — fast. At a time like this, those who love this place should be clamoring to do what they can to help. Instead, we see an empty ballot. Mayoral candidate Gale I'ospisil, incumbent District 6 (Aty Councilor Steven I )igges, and District 5 city council bopeful Bryan Miranda are the only people who have filed. Applications can be obtained from the city secretary's office at the Municipal Building, 424 S. Castell Ave. ()ffice hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Application forms also can be obtained from the Secretary of State's website, www.sos.state.tx.us. There is no filing fee. Winning candidates will serve three-year terms. Herald-Zeitung Serving New Braunfels and ( omal ( .aunty since 1852, New Braunfels Zeitung was founded 1852; New Braunfels Herald was founded 1890 the two papers merged in 1957 and printed in both German and English until 1958 ; Editor and Publisher I Managing Editor I Circulation Director j Business Manager Doug Toney Autumn Phillips Jeff Fowler Rosie Willingham A cursory twk at the 2010 census figures, or an early morning glance at 1-35, will tell you New Braunfels is changing — fast. At a time like this, those who love this place should l>e clamoring to do what they can to help. LETTERS POLICY ■ Letters must be 250 words or less. ■The Herald-Zeitung reserves the right to edit all submissions. ■ Guest columns should be 500 words or less and must be accompanied by a photo. ■ Address and telephone number must be included so authorship can be confirmed. Mail letters to: Letters to Editor do Herald Zeitung RO. Drawer 311328 New Braunfels, TX 78131-1328 Fax them to: (830) 606-3413 e-mail them to: news@herald- zeitung.com Letters to the Editor Is the City of New Braunfels trying to set up a monopoly at airport? It's time to stand up for free enterprise at New Braunfels Municipal Airport. There is a battle shaping up at the airport that can only be described as epic. The airport manager, and presumably the city, versus a private business that provides the only full-service, fixed-base operation at the airport. While skirmishes and differences of opinion have cropped up from time to time between airport management and New Braunfels Aero Service, the latest round of obstruction by the city is nothing short of disturbing. Your paper has covered the shutdown of the leased fuel farm and earlier moves by the city, but this week's Temporary Restraining Order that prohibits New Braunfels Aero from dispensing fuel is a hideous restraint of trade and a heavy-handed mow by the city to obtain a complete monopoly on fuel sales. There is no doubt some procedural errors or omissions occurred, but waving the safety flag and using the court as an emergency measure is out of line and abusive. This is another flagrant move by the city to stifle competition, and it threatens every business and customer at the airport. Jobs at New Braunfels Aero have been lost and more are threatened. Uncertainty as to the ongoing poor business environment at the airport is causing other businesses to question the airport's viability. The only overlap between the city and New Braunfels Aero is fuel sales, so is it coincidence that the city is waging a fuel battle? I think not. Fuel sales are where the money is. Fuel sales enable New Braunfels Aero's other services. The city provides none of these to the flying public. A monopoly on fuel sales by the city would be an unmitigated disaster. Ask yourself what you'd be paying for auto gas if the government owned all the gas stations! Dan Kelly LaVertiia Federal government should stick to doing what it was created to do I just have to wonder where Stephen Baird has been these last several months when he writes that the Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire at the end of 2012. The message from voters in November 2010 across the country was loud and clear to anyone who is listening: Stop the spending. There is absolutely no reason to raise taxes on anyone. The problem in Washington, DC with the budget is too much spending, not that we have too few taxes. Before we consider any new taxes, we need to cut budget items like the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Small Business Administration; the list could go on and on for a long time. Simply put, the federal government has gotten too involved with our daily lives and is sucking up a lot of available money in taxes that businesses could use to become more efficient, to expand production, and to hire new employees. I have to laugh (if it wasn't so sad) when 1 hear President Obama talking about the government needs to live within its means. What he means is we need to raise taxes and spending on things that the government thinks are important — like high-speed rail. He is pushing billions to build high-speed rail projects that several states have already said they don't want, and will not take the money. Where in the Constitution does it say the federal government should build (or force the states to build) railroads? Let's get back to the things the federal government is constitutionally mandated to do and leave the other things for the states to do. That will take care of the budget. David Holland New Braunfels 'Scrooge ain't broke, and neither is the U.S. government' Maybe instead of playing budgetary chicken with congressional Republicans, the White House should search carnival sideshows and TV shopping channels for a Democratic Glenn Beck. Any glib pitchman could outline a Republican scheme to sabotage the U.S. economy to gain political power far more plausible than Beck's shaggy-dog conspiracies. Think about it. 1 lere we are three years into the hardest times since the 1930s, caused by a nationwide real estate bubble and Wall Street scams that would make a blackjack dealer blush. (Actually, come to think of it, unemployment in Las Vegas remains among the nation's worst.) Catastrophe was averted. The economy's mending. Nevertheless, nationwide unemployment hovers near 9 percent and the recovery's limping at a pace that will take years to restore normalcy. So what do Republicans want to do? Why, to slash spending and put thousands of government employees on the unemployment lines to compete with millions already standing there, of course. If that makes sense to you, then you've been successfully hoodwinked by what I call the Scrooge McDuck conspiracy. Uncle Scrooge, if you recall, was Donald Duck's tightwad zillionaire relative who wore spats GENELYONS Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of "The Hunting of the President."E-mail Lyons at eugene-lyo \ i s2<9ya hoo.com. and a top hat even when dabbling in his bullion vault. Washington's filled with McDuck-sponsored think tanks with names like "The Heritage Foundation" and "Americans for Prosperity.'' Staffed by hired propagandists and bespoke economists, their fundamental message never changes: more wealth for Scrooge. For some of these jokers, there's not enough money in the world. So sure they want to put people out of work during a recession. Fear creates a placid, easily dominated workforce. Some call it "crisis capitalism." Anyway, before last November's election, GOP Speaker John Boehner promised "a relentless focus on creating jobs." Informed that reliable estimates predict that GOP-sponsored budget cuts would result in upwards of700,000 lost jobs, Boehner responded, "So be it." Translation: quack, quack, quack. The speaker claimed that America's "broke" and simply can't afford current budget deficits. Yeah, well, Scrooge ain't broke, and neither is the U.S. government. Anyway, enough about cartoon ducks. Here's a little fish story, a parable if you will, that demonstrates home truths about government spending and economic prosperity: In Arkansas, where I live, trout fish- ing is both a major pastime and source of tourist income. Although rainbow trout are a cold-water species not native to the state, world-record fish are taken frequently. Just writing about it makes me want to load my gear and head for Calico Rock. Anyway, whether you know it or not, these are government trout. Your tax dollars created and maintain this matchless resource. How it started was that mainly under President Eisenhower, the Army Corps of Engineers built several flood-control and power-generating dams in the White River basin: an Arkansas and Missouri version of the TVA. The dams created a string of picturesque lakes straddling the state border: Beaver Fork, Table Rock, Bull Shoals and Norfork. Each became a magnet for real-estate developments and resort communities, transforming one of the nation's historically poorest regions. No government dams, no Branson, Mo., is one way of thinking about it. My child bride cherishes a snapshot she took of President Kennedy when he came to Arkansas to dedicate Greer's Ferry Dam. However, the dams also submerged thousands of acres of cropland and drowned an excellent smallmouth bass fishery. Water emerging from lake depths to power electrical generation is too cold for native fishes. Hence federal trout hatcheries, offered to mitigate environmental damage. So now (surprise!) the Obama administration wants to cut the Fish & Wildlife Service budget, potentially closing fish hatcheries that keep it all going. Trout can't breed in dam tailwa-ters and must be constantly restocked. Should hatcheries close, the fish would soon vanish. So would the economic benefit to dozens of communities along the White and Little Red Rivers. It's an absurd false economy. Resort operators say they pay more in taxes than the cost of operating the hatcheries. (Roughly $7 million is involved.) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette outdoor columnist Bryan Hendricks argues that "closing those hatcheries would exacerbate the dams' negative environmental impact and would essentially constitute a breach of contract." So did some Obama political appointee decide: "To hell with Arkansas. They didn't vote for us anyway. Let them ask the tea party to pay."? It could be. Almost certainly, a way will be found to keep the hatcheries open, almost certainly involving tax money. Contrary to McDuck and tea party dogma, American prosperity has always depended upon countless such examples of public/private synergy. There are similar stories all across the country. Meanwhile, measured as a percentage of GDP, federal tax revenue is at 14.4 percent—the lowest since 1950. (The 40-year average is 18 percent.) Marginal income tax rates on the McDuck class top out at 35 percent- -compared to 50 percent under President Reagan. Only Mexico and Chile, among industrial nations, pay less. Is that the new competition? United States Government PRESIDENT ■ Barack Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20500 SENATE ■ Kay Bailey Hutchison Russell Senate Office Building Room 284 Washington, D.C. 20510 Telephone: (202) 224-5922 Fax: (202) 224 0776 Web: http://hutchison.senate.gov/ (Send e-mails through Web site.) SAN ANTONIO OFFICE: 145 Duncan Drive, Suite 120 San Antonio 78226 Telephone: (210) 340-2885 Fex: (210) 349-6753 ■ John Cornyn Russell Senate-Hart Room 517 Washington, D.C. 20510 Telephone: (202) 224-2934 Fax: (202) 228-2856 Web: http://cornyn.senate.gov/ (Send e-mails through Web site.) AUSTIN OFFICE: 221 West Sixth St., Suite 1530 Austin 78701 Telephone: (512) 469-6034 Fax: (512) 469-6020 SAN ANTONIO OFFICE: 600 Navarro, Suite 210 San Antonio 78205 Telephone: (210) 224-7485 Fex: (210) 224-8569 CONGRESSMAN ■ Lamar Smith Rayburn House Office Building Room 2409 Washington, D.C. 20515 Telephone: (202) 225-4236 Fax: (202) 225-8628 Web address: http://lamarsmith.house.gov/ (Send e-mails through Web site.) SAN ANTONIO OFFICE: 1100 NE Loop 410, Suite 640 San Antonio 78209 Telephone: (210) 821-5024 Fex: (210) 821-5947 ■ Henry Cuellar 1404 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Telephone: (202) 225-1640 Fex: (202) 225-1641 Web address: http://www.house.gov/cuellar SAN ANTONIO OFFICE: 615 E. Houston St. San Antonio 78205 Telephone: (210) 271-2851 Fax: (210) 277-6671 GOVERNOR maenaaMe esas aaaaauMBUa augi HOW TO vOMTACT Texas Government ■ Rick Perry State Capitol, Room 2S.1 P.O. 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Making the Invisible Visible: A City in Multiples and the Art of Multiplicity
The current climate surrounding contemporary art production—including recent curatorial and exhibition practices—is especially marked by an ongoing expansion of the field across disciplinary boundaries and beyond the conventional spaces of display and reception. This expanding field of artistic production spreads in multiple directions, an expanding universe without any definite center or edge. One facet of this expanding field concerns the arm of contemporary art production today that takes the very nature of human relations as the source material for the undertaking of a project or research initiative. In doing so, artistic processes are combined with social processes of transformation through the "making visible" of that which is otherwise invisible: that is, the very socio-politico-economic tensions and power relations that organize societal life, as well as the "invisible" people within society, the marginalized and/or disenfranchised.
Many projects of socially engaged, collaborative art are highly complex systems that entangle both aesthetic and socio-politico-economic issues. These kinds of practices often speak to diverse groupings of people, who—while deeply interconnected—may or may not have access to the necessary socially, culturally or politically viable opportunities for the articulation of their personal views and concerns, their own subject positions. This type of working process—layering aesthetic and sociopolitical issues; employing open-ended, dialogical modes of production; testing the very publicness of the spaces in which the work permeates—requires a kind of artistic and curatorial prowess that focuses on notions of collaboration, representation and improvisation. Yet, the very mutability of these practices does much to dissuade the use of oversimplified categories and concepts, and without sufficient tools (theoretical or practical) to measure and gage their multiple values and points of reception, analysis can often lead to a reduction of the works to a single dimension or create a misleadingly narrow critical framework.
In order to avoid the numbing effects that accompany the use of generic terms—the pitfalls of overgeneralization—I will take a moment to further explore the concepts of collaboration and representation in the hopes of reactivating them within the context of this analysis. My interest in collaborative processes extends far beyond merely the definition of two or more people "working together." This is a rather mundane interpretation and does not convey the sense of reciprocal activation—processes that create a sense of agency and empowerment among the participants that they may not otherwise put into practice—that is fundamental to collaboration. The exhibitions, and works of art within, develop situations for the expression of multiple subject positions, and it is through these kinds of exchanges that the possibility for change is enacted, with careful attention paid to the aesthetic potential of the communicative act. Above all, these projects come to function as critical sites of debate and contestation, a form of productive interaction that invariably metabolizes the different viewpoints of those involved in order to produce other viewpoints to be mulled over and debated. Such processes are ultimately dialectical in nature, productive in their sustained oppositionality and interconnectedness.
The different subject positions encounter one another and catalyze (re)vision through such interactions as a result of their proximities, both physically and intellectually. It is no wonder then that many of these projects have been hailed for their democratic nature, through the visualization and vocalization of the polis, but I would take this idea even further. These projects are not merely embodiments of democratic ideals, but are part of a larger project identified by French philosophers Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe as "radical democracy."[1] This is not the complacent form of democratic participation that largely defines many political systems today, but the creation of an "agonistic public sphere."[2] At this point, the notion of representation within the arts becomes infused with a sense of political representation. Debate and contestation are the cornerstones of a healthy political sphere, and I hold the same for works of art that attempt to address issues that also blend into the realms of the social sciences and beyond. This extends their potential value far beyond the rectification of some perceived societal ailment. Socially engaged, collaborative public art projects, in my opinion, should not be subjugated to some ameliorative function or criterion, as this would greatly reduce the complex nature of such practices and the issues that are their raw materials. While many of these projects certainly contain some ideological bent (which is unavoidable, a facet of authorship), there is also a concerted effort to represent the true, multivalent nature of such issues. Art, after all, is more concerned with raising questions than providing concrete answers.
Taking these various observations into consideration, I have selected a recent exhibition of socially engaged, public art to use as a case study. To this end, the exhibition ciudadMULTIPLEcity in Panama City, Panama, will provide a keenly provocative set of parameters, contexts and situations for this analysis of recent developments within the artistic field. The analysis of ciudadMULTIPLEcity will sift through the various layers of production: the exhibition itself is like a Russian Matryoshka doll, embodying multiple scales and contexts within contexts, each drawing "upon the complex discourse of the relationship between artist and place, re-imagining place as a situation, a set of circumstances, geographical location, historical narrative, group of people or social agenda."[3] But still many questions continue to plague this realm of activity, specifically as to the actual social value and lasting effects of such projects. It is my hope that through the intimate engagement of the co-curators, artists and works of art in ciudadMULTIPLEcity that some of these questions will be further illuminated in the following pages.
A Bird's Eye Overview
In the spring of 2003, Panama City, Panama, was transformed into an exhibition platform, providing a dynamic and indeterminate context for the realization of the public art exhibition ciudadMULTIPLEcity. Exploding throughout the city, emerging out of unpredictable moments and unconventional spaces, only to recede back into the forest of signs from which they came, the 12 projects of ciudadMULTIPLEcity were experiments in radical urban art practices.[4] As such, this exhibition of socially engaged, collaborative public art was not concerned with the ability of art to adorn or beautify spaces of the city, nor to offer any corrective measure to the inequalities of societal life that are rampant in a global financial center like Panama City. The planning, design and implementation of the exhibition was thus "definitely against a passive, 'happy' exhibition, so to speak, and all for agitation and confrontation, in order to expose different underlying social, political, ethical, symbolic, economic and psychological realities at work in this city."[5] The exhibition took on additional significance as it gained support from the local government as part of their yearlong centennial celebration. This fact further imbued the overall project with a sense of pride for the inhabitants of the city, connecting local cultural forms and practices with an international art world and audience, delineating the city as a significant stopover for itinerant art world practitioners.
The exhibition design of ciudadMULTIPLEcity intertwined aspects of the scattered-site international exhibition, research-based project program, and residency model. A total of 13 artists were invited to participate in the exhibition: 10 international artists from various parts of the world, and 3 artists from Panama.[6] As a relatively open-ended and pervasive exhibition design, it was exactly the multiple nature of the city—its many identities, desires, dreams, expectations, and failures—that fueled the development of each project, and provided the raw (im)materiality of the various artistic projects. Thus, it should not be surprising that one of the primary, guiding principles of the exhibition was the idea of the city as a complicit and integral "living protagonist of works of art that would in turn act upon it."[7] This is a very exciting proposition in that it moves beyond the rigidity of period shows, or loosely thematic exhibitions. It presents the exhibition structure as one of possibilities, particularly in its flexibility and open-endedness. Yet, such a proposition is not without its own parameters and limitations. In fact, working in the public realm presents entirely different sets of problems and logistical conundrums that are, in a way, the very essence of such an undertaking. To work in public space is also to probe and question the very "publicness" of that space.
Yet, if the city is a "living protagonist," a creative agent in the development of works of art, then what exactly is the working relationship between the city, curators, artists and works of art? How does this interactivity play out over the course of the exhibition? In varying degrees, it seems that these relationships are dialectical in nature. Many of the works in the show were developed over time—with interests geared more towards the process of creation rather than some final product—just as any conception of the city is always a work in progress, always incomplete. In their catalogue essay for the exhibition, curators Gerardo Mosquera and Adrienne Samos suggested this dialectical relationship between the artworks and the city, as always folding back upon itself, a ceaseless cycle of influence and interpenetration:
- the works of ciudadMULTIPLEcity were directed to move in a circle: from the city toward the art and from art toward the city. Some works invited participation, others not, but both the works themselves as well as the artists' working methods generated multiple dialogues with the metropolis, its people and imaginaries.[8]
This type of working relationship is one of constant flux. With each turn of the circle new perspectives are revealed, information is metabolized. This dialectical process is the creative foundation of the works that attempt to exist within, act upon, and make visible those aspects of the urban environment that remain in constant states of change. This dialecticism "makes art much more 'vulnerable' to the ways it is understood by the different audiences."[9] I am especially attracted to this idea of the vulnerability of art, as it conveys a sense of the porosity of the artistic process as well as the instability of the artistic message: it is always, and quite purposefully, open to interpretation. Now, in order to further ground this analysis in the actual working processes of the curators, artists and their collaborators, I will turn to consider an example of a project from the exhibition: the sculptural street installations of Jesús Palomino, entitled Vendors and Squatters.
Art/Life in the Streets
The street installations by Spanish artist Jesús Palomino explore social boundaries within Panama City. Palomino's constructions engaged issues of class, race, and marginality, along with their implicit social tensions—or power struggles—as they play out daily in various spaces throughout the city. Collectively, these installations are titled Vendors and Squatters, 2003, an overt reference to the informal markets and improvised living quarters of many of the city's inhabitants. Upon arrival to Panama City, Palomino attests to the fact that he was "deeply impressed by the street markets and the makeshift informal structures built by the vendors themselves," and thus his initial proposal for ciudadMULTIPLEcity "was to place a fictional market place on the streets of Panama City."[10] Working closely with co-curator Gerardo Mosquera, Palomino eventually decided to fabricate a number of impromptu shelters/vendor stalls to be sited in strategically contentious or provocative locations throughout the city. As a result, these freestanding, improvisational structures were not protected by a sense of security in numbers and were themselves under the daily threat of being dismantled or vandalized. In fact, a number of these structures were removed prematurely before the full run of the exhibition.[11] In an interesting reversal, it was the upper echelon of society that perpetuated such threats, perceiving these structures as less than desirable incursions into their neatly manicured neighborhoods and luxury commercial centers.
The lives of many of Panama City's informal market vendors and squatter communities are defined by their very precariousness. With reference to their actual living conditions, then, it seems quite suggestive that the spaces of their livelihood are also crafted from precarious, improvised materials. As such, the structure of the shanty takes on a largely symbolic meaning, itself the visual expression of the lives of those who reside and work there, an embodiment of their uneasy position within societal life. Art critic and curator Bennett Simpson stresses the intentional materiality of Palomino's structures, extending the aesthetic dimension of the work towards critique:
- Palomino built a series of precarious, impromptu structures and sited them in parking lots, on the backs of apartment buildings and along avenues downtown. Fabricated from scrap materials, painted bright shades of blue or red, the structures resembled abandoned fruit stands or sun shelters. Like many of the works in the exhibition, the mock-shanties called attention to something official Panama may choose to ignore…[12]
What emerges from this focus on materiality is the idea that the city, again, plays a central role in the creation of the works. In this case, the city quite literally lends itself to the fabrication of the installations by way of its own accumulation of debris. It is fundamental to the conceptual nature of the project that the very same materials and fabrication methods were used to create these structures. Here, there is a convergence of social consciousness and aesthetics. It is not merely important that Palomino used similar types of materials, but also the way in which he employed them with careful attention to the aesthetics of informal architecture and necessity.
The provocation of these structures in Panama City, however—situated in very specific public spaces—contrasted greatly with the more commonly indifferent and/or contemplative responses to these works within gallery walls. This reveals "the extent to which such 'neutral' spaces sap the critical and social implications of art."[13] The reactions and responses that Vendors and Squatters received were anything but benign, and they came from multiple angles and with varying levels of ferocity. While Palomino himself was not present for the entire duration of the project, and subsequently only learned of the controversy surrounding his work through second hand sources, he admitted that he had not foreseen the kind of heated debate that emerged as a result of his work, on the streets of the city and in the media.[14] So why did this work cause such a commotion? What were the stakes of the debate? Who did it affect most directly, and how? The art critic Craig Garrett, writing for the journal Art Nexus, throws the controversy into relief:
- removed from their gallery context, these delicate structures of paper, plastic sheeting and other ephemeral materials hit upon one of the unique features of Panama City: the sharp divide between property owners—the main beneficiaries of the nation's trade-based open market economy—and the disenfranchised families who struggle to scrape together a living in virtually the same physical space.[15]
It is the very nature of squatting and informal economic ventures to inhabit spaces within the city that are abandoned, interstitial or that have otherwise fallen into disuse. Despite being illegal practices, the enforcement of anti-squatting and sidewalk vending laws is often sporadic and inconsistent, eventually allowing many of such endeavors to become semi-permanent. More often than not, the enforcement of these regulations is carried out only when these structures cross some socioeconomic line, and this has everything to do with visibility and proximity. As long as these individuals stay out of sight and out of certain neighborhoods, they are tolerated (even if begrudgingly).
For ciudadMULTIPLEcity, Palomino and his team of workers—local artists, urban theorists from the University, a local carpenter by the name of Victor—performed the work of vendors and squatters, but in a very limited way. Nevertheless, through this performativity, Palomino's livelihood (that is, his artistic career, trajectory and reputation) became interwoven with those of the individuals whose practices he was referencing. In a symbolic fashion, Palomino was also scraping together the means necessary for his own survival. Yet, the stakes were hardly the same: in the collaborative process, the artist retains a privileged position—a sense of autonomy—while simultaneously submitting this autonomy to the vulnerability of multiple sources of input. Palomino constructed a situation and then walked away, allowing the work to adapt to and be adapted by others. It is also important to note that Palomino was permitted to place these structures in their various contexts once an agreement had been reached with the site owners, and, more importantly, because they were (just) works of art. But this was the great sleight-of-hand performed by Palomino, after all, whereby art transforms reality, becomes more real than life itself by inciting actions and debates that otherwise remain present but unarticulated.
As I stated previously, it is illuminating to consider these projects as instances within a much larger framework, an ongoing project that relates something of Laclau and Mouffe's theory of "radical democracy." In this respect I wholeheartedly agree with a statement made by internationally renowned curator of contemporary art Fulya Erdemci, who said: "For me, the raison d'être of any art project in public space is to create a contrast, unfold a conflict and even add more conflict to make it visible."[16] This sentiment resonates deeply with the concept of "radical democracy" as outlined by Mouffe and Laclau. Art critic and curator Barbara Steiner relays how:
- "Radical democracy" demands "the creation of new subject-positions that would allow the common articulation, for example, of anti-racism, anti-sexism, and anti-capitalism. These struggles do not simultaneously converge. In order to establish democratic equivalences, a new "common sense" is necessary… For it is not a matter of establishing a mere alliance between given interests, but of actually modifying the very identity of these forces."[17]
The processes of identification that result from the engagement of sociopolitical issues shape the different constituencies or loosely defined communities of people, but these are never definite or complete formations. Representation is always coming-into-being and simultaneously slipping away, emerging and receding, oscillating between visibility and invisibility. Furthermore, from an aesthetic standpoint, perhaps one way to think of the successfulness of such projects is the formulating of the project's mode of address, of its communicability. This has everything to do with the uncanny ability of curators and artists to develop systems of communication, of dialogue and debate between various groups of people that perhaps may not otherwise readily engage one another despite the fact that they occupy the same spaces. More often than not, it seems to me, these groups are unrecognized compatriots in the daily social lives and urban fabric of the cities in which they live. The very power of these projects, then, rests in their ability to bring into focus such processes of recognition.
These processes develop both self-knowledge as well as knowledge of the "other." As this functions at the individual level, it seems safe to say that the same could be applied to collective bodies and even to society itself. It is well recognized that crises precipitate change, and these works of art create situations wherein moments of crisis linger and provoke. This process inflects both the knowledge of the self and the other, and being able to see in this new light already constitutes a significant change. The potential for growth is also the potential to grow together, as well as to grow apart, and the directionality of such processes are largely influenced by the quality and character of the interactive experience created by artists and curators in collaboration with specific constituencies or publics. Finally, the very possibility of making the invisible visible, of excavating the social tensions and power dynamics of local and global society—in situ—will only ever further expand our knowledge of ourselves, of how we live and why things exist as they do. Equipped with such knowledge, we can begin to consider other alternatives, other ways of existing that throws off the shell of complacency and seeks a more informed way of life.


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Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced that the network has picked up a second season of the original series, "Black Sails" from executive producer Michael Bay in advance of its first season premiere. The announcement comes on the heels of the exclusive fan screening at San Diego Comic-Con several months in advance of its on-air premiere in January, 2014. The eight-episode first season of the authentic pirate adventure centers on the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men, and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island."
"Black Sails" is executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on The Purge and currently in production on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The series was created by showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Steinberg (creator "Jericho," "Human Target") and Season Two executive producer Robert Levine ("Touch").
The production is set to begin on the 10-episode second season at Cape Town Studios in Cape Town, South Africa in November.
"Michael Bay, Jon Steinberg and their teams delivered a spectacular first season of 'Black Sails,' and we are incredibly proud of everyone's work," said Chris Albrecht, CEO of STARZ. "Based on the strong fan response to the preview screening at last week's Comicon, we felt an early order for a second season would allow the writers, cast and crew enough time and space to continue crafting such unique and epic storytelling."
Creator and Executive Producer Jon Steinberg said "We are thrilled to be receiving such an exciting vote of confidence from everyone at Starz and for the opportunity to carry the 'Black Sails' adventure into Season Two without missing a beat. We couldn't ask for better partners in bringing our pirate world to life."
"We've had a fantastic experience working with Chris Albrecht and Jon Steinberg," said executive producer Michael Bay. "Brad, Andrew and I look forward to continuing our partnership with Starz on future episodes for this extraordinary show."
Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver (Luke Arnold). Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day - a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) and Luke Arnold (Broken Hill, "McLeod's Daughters") are joined by Zach McGowan ("Shameless") as rival Captain Charles Vane; Toby Schmitz ("The Pacific") as Jack Rackham, Vane's right hand; Hannah New (Maleficent) as Eleanor Guthrie, a determined young woman who runs the smuggling operation on New Providence; Hakeem Kae-Kazim ("Strike Back," Hotel Rwanda) as Mr. Scott, Eleanor's retainer and right hand, Jessica Parker Kennedy ("The Secret Circle," 50/50, In Time) as Max, a tortured young prostitute who sees the dark side of New Providence; Mark Ryan (Transformers, The Prestige, Charlie's Angels, "Robin of Sherwood") as Gates, Captain Flint's Quartermaster and most senior member of his crew, Clara Paget (The Fast and The Furious 6) as the beautiful but cold-blooded Anne Bonny and Tom Hopper ("Merlin") as Billy Bones, boatswain of Flint's ship.
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As soon as I upped the intensity of the training for the MK 2012 (29th April, Milton Keynes) an injury appeared, the dreaded AchillesTendonitis of which I had never heard before. I had never suffered anything like that before, only an ITB from which I've healed completely. Apart from the first time it appeard, some weeks ago, the AT doesn't hurt too much actually, and just shows when I do long runs of 13 miles upwards. Being at half point of my marathon training this is an scary issue because it poses a real threat to my very first race ever. I've still got 8 weeks in front, and I've already decided to ditch any tempo, hill or intervals altogether and just do normal running and the long run. The last lon run I did, I noticed a bit of strange feeling there in the tendon, but never got too bad. Today instead I couldn't finish the fartlek session because it was obvious that I would have only made it worse. Have any of you been in a similar situation? Is 8 weeks enough time to recover from this? OMG, I've got so many interrogants in my head. Many thanks!
Thanks Deepdown. Apart from the first time it appeared, the discomfort I feel every now and then does not reach a level you could call painful, but I'm sure this is because I've stopped running everytime I felt the AT building up.
I'll be warming up more thoroughly from now on, and make sure I ice the tendon after a run. About the shoes I'm using I think they are ok, but they're also a bit worn out and made for trail-off road, so it may be time to buy new shoes for the race and start training with them.
What I was wondering is if someone else has been in a situation where he/she had to take a drastic decision about their training in order to save the race, and what kind of decision would that be. In my case I'm going to drop all high intensity workouts from now on and see what happens.
Are you sure its AT?
Have you had an expert diagnosis of that or is it internet based self diagnosis?
EA, I suffered Achilles Tendonitis in the two months preceding my first Ironman. It killed me to accept that I needed to give up running and train exclusively on bike and in pool (which didn't aggravate injury) but it meant Achilles got necessary rest and whilst it gave some discomfort on raceday, I made it.
Like others, make sure you have diagnosis right and listen to your body for feedback.
The one thing I can recommend that will not do any damage and really helped in my recovery, eccentric calf stretches (see link below). Twenty in the morning, twenty in the evening. Boring but give it a try for a fortnight, it's bound to help!
The main thing to do is ditch any idea of a time target for your marathon. This will put you and the injury under undue pressure. Accept that you may just be "getting round" on this occasion but there will plenty more.
What you're cutting out of your training sounds the right thing to do. I'd keep going gently. You will experience discomfort at the beginning of your run but often with AT this eases off after a few miles, and then perhaps comes back later when you should think about stopping. Certainly top if you ever get acute, sharp pain from the area. Stretch calves after every outing and ice if swollen. I was in the habit of immersing my foot and ankle in a bucket of cold water for 15 minutes at different times through the day, mealtimes, etc.
Try to find someone who can give you a good diagnosis on the extent of the injury, not necessarily a GP unless knowledgeable about sports injuries.
Hi again. Just to update the situation. I feel much better now since I stopped intervals, tempos, hills and fartleks. Shame because it was fun and thrilling.
Basically I performed one of the long runs, a half marathon, with a nagging feeling in the achilles area, but I didn't think it was going to get worse than that, so I kept on running. Immediatly after I finished the run the pain seemed to increase but it never got as bad as when I suffered it for the first time. That time I was limping for the next hours after suffering the injury, to give you an idea.
After that long run I left two whole days rest and did just a couple of short runs of about 4 miles before the next long run, which was a mere 12 miler at a very gentle pace. I finished it feeling almost OK, but it was evident that the culprit, as you guys rightly point out was overtraining. My next long run will be this Sunday and I'm pretty sure it will be just fine...hopefully. Steep tracks seem to bring back the injury, so I'll be avoiding them. One thing I find curious is that the end of this Achilles Tendonitis is marked also by the dissapearance of the stiffness I felt in both Gastrocnemius. I'm sure there's a strong relation between both there.
Many thanks to you all.
Hi LeedsNick!
As far as I know, the only remedy was to rest, but the link that Proven Robbie W included in his post was helpful too. Thanks for claryifing the relationship between gastrocs and tendon. In the early stages of my training I felt invincible and did silly things like climbing a massive hill 8 or 9 times in the space of one hour. The good thing is that now I'm starting to see the cause-effect relation of the way I perform at every session, so I hope will learn from this lesson !


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The National Taxpayers Union Foundation has released a study indicating that 65 out of the 70 planks in John Kerry's fiscal policy platform would increase federal spending, while only five would reduce the budget.
Pete Sepp, vice president of communications for the National Taxpayers Union (NTU), said that if all of Kerry's 70 campaign promises became law, the total amount of federal spending would increase by $226 billion in his first year in office.
Sepp said Kerry would compound one of the Bush administration's major errors. "Certainly the biggest mistake the current administration has made was signing the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit into law without insisting on much stronger reforms to Medicare itself," Sepp said.
The 2002 Farm Bill, which Sepp said reversed much of the efficiency contained in the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act, was also a mistake committed by the Bush administration.
However, the NTU study indicated "that a Kerry administration would only increase the flow of dollars to these areas with very little accountability along the way," Sepp said.
The NTU study also posted taxpayer scores for both Kerry and Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards. According to Sepp, the score was based on the number of times a member of Congress "tries to reduce or control government."
Scores below 25 percent on the 2003 rating generated a grade of "F". Edwards' score was 22 percent. Kerry's was 14 percent.
However, Mark Weisbrot, economist and co-director of the Center for Economic Policy Research, said Kerry's proposals to expand health care coverage would be balanced by his tax increases on wealthier individuals.
Kerry "doesn't have a program right now that would reduce the deficit," Weisbrot conceded, "but the Bush administration is a little worse than that on the fiscal policy because their proposals were increasing "
Weisbrot said deficit spending was worsened by the Bush administration's tax cuts. "The tax cuts are responsible for the biggest chunk of the deficit, the record level deficits we have now, and the record-level national debt we are going to have next year."
According to congressional sources, a mid-year White House report expected Friday will peg the current fiscal year's budget deficit at $420 billion, an amount that is about $100 billion less than the forecast five months ago.
Sepp said taxpayers would benefit if this trend continued through September. "If these figures hold out through the end of the fiscal year, that's a very, very small silver lining on a huge dark cloud for taxpayers," he said.
"We can only hope that additional spending restraint can bring the numbers down much further. That is something the administration, whoever is in the White House in 2005, needs to get to work on right away."
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She treated us to weeks of whining, sobbing and pleading to be sent home.
But Helen Flanagan swore she had no "game plan" to leave the Australian jungle when she was finally voted off I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.
The former Coronation Street star, who had become the token wimp of this series after she freaked out of a series of bushtucker trials, looked shocked when she was named as the latest celebrity to leave the camp, saying: "Oh my God."
And she told hosts Ant and Dec that she felt "proud" of herself "because I feel like I did my best" – although she sounded a little less confident when she watched footage of herself.
"Can I have a pillow to cringe?" she said.
She admitted: "Ever since I've been here I've just been absolutely cringing about how bad I'm going to look in these trials, thinking this is so humiliating - I will never be able to live this down."
Flanagan christened her appearance on Strictly with a crushing failure in the first trial of the series, which saw her freaking out 10 seconds after she lay down in a wooden box that was to be filled with insects.
She lasted all of five seconds in the Cruelty Towers challenge, screaming to be let out the moment the lights went out, though she did manage a nibble of each of the jungle delicacies she was served in another challenge – including baked spider, rotten egg, camel's toe and ostrich anus.
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"I think things are going pretty good for us right now,'' fifth-year senior strong safety Mike Phillips said. "Everybody's getting on the same page in the secondary and on the overall defense, too.
"We got big holes to fill with the losses of Darrelle Revis and Sam Bryant in the secondary and all our linebackers. We're doing our best, but we have to strive to get better. And I think we're on pace to do that.''
With Phillips, redshirt junior free safety Eric Thatcher -- a part-time starter last season -- and fifth-year senior Kennard Cox returning as a starting cornerback, Pitt's secondary is its most experienced unit on the defense. Sophomore Aaron Berry is the other expected starting corner.
Phillips, who played some at cornerback to begin his career, started three games at strong safety in 2005 and opened five games at free safety last fall as Thatcher's replacement. He started the first five games, but injured an ankle. Phillips broke his ankle as well in 2005 and had a tough time bouncing back last season even though he played in all 12 games.
"Last year, I was saying in my head that I was back at 100 percent, but I really wasn't,'' Phillips said. "I really never got over that hump, but I feel real good right now. And I think it should be even better when the season starts.''
Thatcher is back at free safety during Pitt's spring workouts at the UPMC Sports Complex, while Phillips has moved back to strong safety.
"Last year helped me out a lot,'' Thatcher said. "Just seeing how fast the game really is against different teams and in the Big East and not just our guys in practice, it definitely helped me to be ready for this season and to know what to expect when I get out there in a game again.
"And I don't think I'll have any problem with my ankle. It feels real good right now, but I have to keep working at it, keep rehabbing it, getting my treatment and working hard on conditioning. So, I expect it to be in great shape when summer training camp comes around in four months.''
Paul Rhoads is charged with improving the Panthers defense, not only as the unit's coordinator but as the new linebackers coach. He handled the secondary in his previous seven seasons at Pitt. Chris Ball was hired this season to coach the Panthers defensive backs. He coached the secondaries at Washington State and Alabama the previous seven seasons.
"We definitely have a veteran secondary,'' Ball said. "We also have some young guys in there like Berry, Jovani Chappel and Elijah Fields, who are expected to play a lot this season. Berry should start opposite K.C. (Cox), but we'll see what happens in summer camp.''
Thatcher believed that he and Phillips needed to assert themselves on the field as the starting safeties, as well as off the field as team leaders.
"We definitely have a lot of experience out there, especially with me and Mike in the secondary and K.C.,'' Thatcher said. "So, we can just bring along the young guys, in meetings and on the field, and just help them along. When they need help, we should be the first ones there. That's the way it should be, but I think we can help everywhere on defense.
"We might not know the gaps and things like that for the D-line, but we can keep them pumped up and keep them going. We can do that for the linebackers as well, and we can back them up if anybody gets past them. So, I think we'll be pretty good on defense. We just need some guys to get some more experience, and we'll be all right.''
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Jessica Chung, Regulatory Affairs, Ethicon, Inc.
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Dr. Jain called Dr. Chung to request additional revisions to the Prescribing Information (PI) dated 11.16.2012. Specifically Dr. Jain requested revisions to the following sections of the PI:
HIGHLIGHTS (The changes were to be made to the corresponding Full Prescribing information sections of the PI as well).
Dosage and Forms and Strengths:
Insert absorbable to indicate the dosage form for EVARREST:
i.e. EVARREST absorbable Fibrin Sealant Patch consists of human fibrinogen and human thrombin embedded in a flexible…
Warnings and Precautions:
The Warning and Precaution statement about Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease was revised to state:
Because this product is made from human plasma, it may carry a risk of transmitting infectious agents, e.g., viruses, the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) agent and, theoretically, the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) agent (5.7)
Dr. Jain noted that the PI has been reviewed by the Office Director, Dr. Jay Epstein. He requested revisions to the adverse reactions (AR) table in section 6.1 of the PI. Specifically, Dr. Epstein noted that the table is misleading because the EVARREST group includes both the randomized and non- randomized, uncontrolled subjects who received EVARREST as part of an extended safety evaluation of EVARREST in the 400-07-002 study. The table will be more accurate if it specifically compares the subjects who were part of the controlled portion of the study. Therefore, the denominator for EVARREST in this table should reflect the controlled portion of the study.
Dr. Jain also stated that the Warnings and Precautions section (section 5.4) of the PI would need to be revised to address FDA's concerns about the ----b(4)------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FDA asked Ethicon to propose language regarding use of ORC in gynecologic surgery where hemostasis is not optimal, and thus predisposing to adhesion formation, to be included in section 5.4.
Adverse Reactions
FDA requested that Ethicon re-calculate the AR's in the table based on the controlled portion of the study and also report the overall safety population of subjects who received EVARREST (N=229), as it appears in the current table.
An option would be to include one table with 3 columns:
1) EVARREST (controlled study), 2) EVARREST overall and 3) Control.
Additional ARs may be added if they meet the following criteria: rate of ≥ 1% and greater incidence in the EVARREST arm compared to the control arm. The ARs should also be clinically relevant for EVARREST's surgical indication and known mechanism of action. The table could be followed by a footnote stating that five of the six pulmonary embolic reported for EVARREST occurred in the open label uncontrolled section of the soft tissue bleeding study.
The following sentence was deleted from the immunogenicity section (section 6 Adverse Reactions):
The results demonstrated that the proportion of subjects having an immune response to human thrombin was within the expected range, i.e. within the 95% confidence interval, of the normal healthy population that had not been treated with thrombin products.
17 Patient Counseling Information
"Runny nose" was deleted from the described symptoms for parvovirus B19 infection, since this symptom occurs by way of a respiratory route. Parvovirus infection resulting from EVARREST would occur by means of systemic exposure.
Dr. Jain committed to send Ethicon a PI with track change revisions later this evening. A telecon will be set up for tomorrow, November 27, 2012 at 12:30 PM EST to continue working toward agreement on the final version of the PI.


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SECURED PROCESSING CENTER, INC.4500 CAMPUS DR., NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 NEWPORT BEACH, California USA
SECURED PROCESSING CENTER, INC. MASSIVE FRAUD ON THOUSANDS OF CONSUMERS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES NEWPORT BEACH California
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A massive fraud has been going on for years including loan modification scams, bankruptcy and debt relief. This group of scam artists leaves no drop of blood left in their victums all over the United States. They have so many corporations it is hard to see how they ever keep them all straight. To confuse matters more the throw around names they operate under that are never even business entities. They will use the wensote: www.homeremedycenter.com and have the client sign up with another entity all together. They are to cheap to even make new websites. They just reskin the same one over and over.
Most of the major players never change their emails when operating under 12 different names. they just stay with email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com email@example.com
They promice their clients the world and do nothing. Sometimes the homepwners get loan modifications by mistake.
The constant name changes let them burn FEDERAL EXPRESS and all the vendors too!! They have a real cute scam for burning employees too!! They bring in hundreds of case managers to work the incoming calls. They tell them it is illegal for them to be paid until the investor/bank agrees to a loan mod. They take huge upfromt fees paid to antoher company which is them also. SAYING IT IS PROCESSING. They processing never is done so the case manager never makes any money and quits after a month or 2. They then blame the modification not going thru on the case manager. The client has paid the full processing fee and the file should continue to be processed because it was paid for. If the client quits making payments they stop processing....so the client ends up with with nothing having paid full price for processing. They have many small offices in buildings all Over Orange County California. They are now also in Aliso Viejo and Lake Forest. They have had different locations in Newport Beach. 4500 Campus Dr. Newport Beach 92660 houses about 100 employees. They look to be moving out of there as it is getting to hot in Newport Beach. It April an employee trashed Matt Brinks office and rammed his Benrley with his car when they did not pay him. Work has it he is now in new offices in Aliso Viejo. These guys must be really smart to keep up with all the fake names and fake companies they use....and to change them all so fast!
These hemans are the lowest scum on earth!!
IF YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED BY THEM GO TO (((ROR redacted))) THERE IS A ( REAL ESTATE FRAUD FORM ) ON THE FRONT PAGE..FILL IT OUT!
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MATT BRIGGS, BRIAN LEVINE ANDREW WEISS AND SIMON YARINDI have moved everything from GREENLEAF LEGAL SERVICES in MISSION VIEJO when the government shut them down there.
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May 9, 2013 - The Associated PressComment sought on cougar regs
JACKSON -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is taking public comment on proposed mountain lion hunting quotas and rules.
Two proposed changes in rules would ban hunting with dogs after dark and would prohibit chasing lions with hounds in closed areas or seasons.
Hunters would also no longer be able to run dogs in closed hunting areas with no intent to harvest a mountain lion.
Game and Fish biologist Dan Thompson said Game and Fish is proposing to boost quotas in three of the 33 lion hunting areas in the state. No areas would have reductions in quotas.
In addition, several other areas are being recommended for year-round hunting, up from seven months of the year.
G&F faces more budget cutting
CHEYENNE -- Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director Scott Talbott says the agency faces another round of budget cuts unless lawmakers increase its funding.
Talbott told a legislative committee Wednesday that the agency will have to slash $1.5 million to $2 million from its fiscal year 2014-15 budget if nothing is done.
The cut would be on top of a $2 million reduction put in place in fiscal year 2012-13 and a $4.6 million cut that is being finalized for fiscal year 2013-14.
Talbott says jobs or key services could be purged if more cuts are needed. But he added that many low-priority services already have been cut.
A proposal to raise agency fees was rejected in the 2013 Legislature.
Hunter accused of baiting
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- A big game outfitter who shot and killed a collared wolf from Yellowstone National Park is intentionally luring the animals by leaving dead sheep carcasses in a pile, leaders of a wolf advocacy group said.
"Make no mistake about that, it's definitely intentional baiting," Marc Cooke, president of Wolves of the Rockies, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
William Hoppe shot and killed a 2-year old, female wolf Sunday near where 13 sheep were killed in April. He notified Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden Chris Kerin that he killed the wolf using one of his two shoot-on-sight permits the agency issued after the sheep were killed. The permits are valid for 45 days and only allow wolves to be shot on the property where the sheep were killed.
In mid-April, Hoppe, an outspoken opponent of wolves, bought about 30 sheep and started raising them on his property along the Yellowstone River near Gardiner.
On April 24, he awakened to find that two wolves had killed five ewes and eight lambs.
Hoppe "deliberately put the sheep on his property ... knowing that the wolves would kill them," Cooke charged.
Hoppe told the Chronicle he was going to move the rest of the sheep closer to his house and that he had disposed of the dead sheep in a bone pile in the area where they were killed.
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Imagine a cool breeze, sand in your toes and a bright orange sunset. For many, this is the picture perfect description of a dream vacation; but if you aren't careful your dream getaway could become an unexpected nightmare. That's why the Lee County Sheriff's Office reminds you to be on the lookout for scammers who want to put a dent in your travel budget this summer while taking you for a long ride to nowhere.
1. Watch out for "travel clubs" that promise their "paid members" will receive greatly reduced luxury cruises, cut rate prices at five-star resorts, and vague promises of free airline tickets with no strings attached for attending an invitation only, no-obligation "presentation". Often these services do little except charge your credit card every month and provide few if any benefits.
2. Beware of timeshare deals that involve high-pressure sales pitches. These seminars are often thinly-veiled ways to get consumers to sign a contract that is full of hidden fees and traps.
3. Watch out for unsolicited e-mails, phone calls and faxes offering hard-to-believe deals on travel to desirable locations. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
4. Avoid sales presentations that require you to "show" your credit card before you can participate or refuse to answer specific questions about the presentation unless you first pay a fee. Run, don't walk from this event. You should never have to pay to receive information about a company and its business practices, or pay to collect a prize.
5. Check out any travel company you may be considering BEFORE giving them any money. A Better Business Bureau search is a good first step, followed by a call to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services at 1-800-HELP-FLA .
6. Always use your credit card when purchasing a trip. If you feel that you've been swindled, you can dispute the charge with your credit card company.
If you have been a victim of a vacation scam or have received an unsolicited phone call, e-mail or postal mail that you feel may be fraudulent please report your concerns to the Federal Trade Commission at www.ftc.gov, FDACS at www.800helpfla.com or contact the Lee County Sheriff's Office Fraud Line at 239-477-1242.
To arrange to have someone come out to your community to talk about this or another safety or security topic please contact the Lee County Sheriff's Office, Community Relations Section at (239) 477-1400.


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Pet Snakes! Choosing a Snake and Snake Care
Pet Snakes"What kind of pet is clean, odorless, and quiet?… easy to hold, and easy to care for? A pet snake! Use this great guide for choosing a pet snake and caring for it too!!" Pet Snakes are well suited to certain types of people! Many types of snakes live around the world, about 2,900 species to be exact! They range in size... [Read more of this article]
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Animal-World's Featured Pet for this week is: The Ball Python! Are you a fan of snakes? Or do you think of scary slithering creatures that you would jump up screaming at the sight of? Well, whether they fascinate you or terrify you, they actually dominate a large part of the reptile pet industry! One of the most popular pet constrictor snakes... [Read more of this article]
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Animal-World's Featured Pet for this week is: The Veiled Chameleon! Chameleons are famous for their camouflage capabilities! They have the perfect body shape and are able to somewhat change colors in order to mimic their surroundings! The Veiled Chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus has evolved to be particularly good at blending in with leaves! There... [Read more of this article]
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When your kids ask for a pet, one of the most easy-going ones you can find is a turtle. But as uncomplicated as they may appear to be, taking care of them requires attention to the needs of this species. Your kids are excited when you bring home their first pet – a turtle. Turtles are small and don't do a whole lot that requires a lot of your time.... [Read more of this article]


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ARDCOne Prudential Plaza, 130 East Randolph Drive, Sui Chicago, Illinois United States of America
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I never knew lawyers, judges, and even the ARDC analyst could be such criminals. These people have been stealing money from the public and destroying thousands of lives for countless years, but yet they've gotten away with it up until now.
First let me tell you my story. I hired Lawerance Vance a criminal attorney to represent me in a employment lawsuit. Just weeks later he settled out of court for what he told me was for $18,000. To make a long story short. Vance actually settled for $27,000. He lied to me numerous times. He never gave me any paperwork that I signed. Not to mention any money either.
ARDC has had numerous complaints on this lawyer. Not once did they inform the public of his unprofessional misconduct. You ask why? Because they're criminals too.
You wonder why your valid complaints haven't been heard or has been denied. That's because ARDC are protecting these no good lawyers. There are a couple of judges that also have their hand in the cookie jar.
Rest assure the FBI knows now. So please stay tuned to the TV and newspapers. There are maybe 10-20 lawyers, 2-5 judges and 2-5 ARDC Analyst are going to be indicted by the end of this week. I'm sure it will probably be more to come.
This so much bigger than an Illinois. Once this hits the news it will become a nationwide issue because other states like New York and California who also is the home for bad lawyers will now be exposed.
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The video above, that's the video I came across skipping around YouTube one evening on my phone watching Bonnaroo performances.
It floored me.
I was entranced by...
Her joy.
Her fluidity.
Her freedom.
I watched it two more times after that & then decided to search YouTube for more.
2 hours & 30 or so hoop videos later, I was hooked.
I bought my first hoop the same night - that was about a month ago.
I've been hooping almost every day since.
In my dining & living room, in my backyard, at my brother's & mama's... everywhere.
I've connected with some beautiful & encouraging souls in the blogosphere that have been hooping for years along with group of gals that blow my mind with their awesomeness.
I'm moving more.
I'm learning to love this post-baby body even more.
I'm stepping out of my comfort zone & hooping in my backyard, surrounded by neighbors on all sides. I would never go out there alone & just dance by myself. Ever. Maybe with friends, but never alone.
Being inside the circle though, it makes me feel safe, loved. It's like it takes all my inhibitions & spins them dizzy.
It is a form of meditation for me.
It brings me peace. Happiness.
It is revolutionizing the way I feel in my skin.
I feel more alive.
I feel more like myself, more so than I have in years.
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Jan 30, 2013 - The Associated PressBodies of avalanche victims found
MOOSE -- Authorities have recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who died in avalanches in western Wyoming.
Officials in Grand Teton National Park say rangers on Monday recovered the body of 30-year-old Nick Gillespie from a canyon in the north end of Grand Teton.
Meanwhile, in Sublette County, a search and rescue team on Monday recovered the body of 28-year-old Elizabeth "Liza" Gray Benson from the Bondurant area.
Both avalanche victims were from Jackson. They were caught in small avalanches while skiing Sunday afternoon.
The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports the avalanches occurred as a storm brought several inches of fresh snow to the region.
They were the first avalanche deaths in the area so far this winter.
Kids go to hospital after eating veggies
LARAMIE -- This isn't going to help kids eat their vegetables.
About a dozen Wyoming preschoolers at Linford Elementary School in Laramie were taken to the hospital Tuesday after eating sample-sized portions of either yucca, the cactus, or yuca, the root vegetable.
It was part of a push to get students to eat new types of fruits and vegetable.
Superintendent Brian Recht says the district's food supplier couldn't confirm which of the two was served. Both are potentially harmful if not properly prepared.
One preschooler reported nausea, but it's not clear if it was related to the food.
Samples were also served at other schools, but no one reported getting sick.
Mandatory DNA samples rejected
CHEYENNE -- Wyoming lawmakers have rejected a proposal to take DNA samples from suspects arrested or charged with serious crimes.
The House Judiciary Committee voted against the so-called "Katie's Law" bill from Democratic Rep. Ken Esquibel of Cheyenne Monday.
Such bills have been considered by legislatures across the country. They're named for a New Mexico woman who was raped and murdered in 2003. That state didn't collect DNA from arrestees at the time so her killer wasn't identified when he was arrested that same year for unrelated crimes.
People convicted of felony charges in Wyoming currently must submit DNA samples. The American Civil Liberties Union and other lawmakers argued that expanding sampling could infringe on the rights of people who are accused of crimes but not convicted.
Bill would keep UW search secret
CHEYENNE -- A bill that would allow searches for University of Wyoming and state community college presidents to be closed to the public has cleared its first floor debate on the state House.
The House of Representatives advanced House Bill 223 on Tuesday. It faces to more votes in the chamber.
The bill was proposed after media outlets in the state protested the decision by the UW Board of Trustees to hold a secret search for a new president to replace retiring President Tom Buchanan.
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